dingle 0 Posted February 23, 2001 People please advise which DVD drives have worked well with W2K - thanks Share this post Link to post
BladeRunner 0 Posted February 23, 2001 I've got a Pioneer 32x/6x and it works flawlessly. [This message has been edited by BladeRunner (edited 23 February 2001).] Share this post Link to post
Brian Frank 0 Posted February 23, 2001 You should be able to get any DVD drive and itll work fine. However, its better to get a name brand drive,like Pioneer, or whatever you can get, youll probably shell out around $150 for a good,name-brand drive with extras. I have a Toshiba 12x, bare bones drive for $115. I have an older 6x in my test system, they seem to hold up very well. Share this post Link to post
EddiE314 0 Posted February 23, 2001 i got a Pioneer DVD-115 16x, works great. Share this post Link to post
whoisurdaddy 0 Posted February 23, 2001 I also got Pioneer DVD-115 16X and it works great. I've tried that DVD drive in both Win2k Professional and Server editions and it works great. Share this post Link to post
HN 0 Posted February 23, 2001 JUST DON'T BUY A CREATIVE DVD-DRIVE!!! I had their 6x/32 IDE-Drive - it was terrible. Currently I have a 10x Pioneer Slot-in which works flawlessly. Share this post Link to post
Bursar 0 Posted February 24, 2001 Don't get a Sony either. I 'acquired' a Sony DDU220E IDE DVD drive and it was fine for a while, and then it basically went tits up and died on me. Everything slowed down and hlaf the time it didn't even recognise the disk. I've since replaced it with a 52x CD drive . When DVDs actually start becoming useful for PCs I might consider getting another one, but it'll prbably be a Pioneer drive, and it'll definately be SCSI. Share this post Link to post
Son_Gohan 0 Posted February 25, 2001 ASUS DVD-E08 Working fine under windows 2000 Pro Share this post Link to post
EddiE314 0 Posted February 25, 2001 gonna have to agree with HN about the Creative drives. Friend had one, lets just say... ...well, i won't say it here but you get the idea Share this post Link to post
Wolf87 0 Posted February 27, 2001 The Sony DDU 1211 is 12X and 40X, buit in China is OK. I previously had a Sony DDU 220E, 5X and 24X with 75 milliseconds access time, built in Japan, which still works fine after two years. The indicated DVD speed is irrelevant. They all play the same. The CD speed matters. They are very good at reading CD-RW discs. Check digital audio extraction and accurate stream capabilities: they make all the difference: CDSpeed at http://209.15.164.79/ Share this post Link to post
