I'm about to take the plunge and buy one of these puppies on Saturday.

Any bad/good/indifferent experiences with that model DVD burner out there?

DVD burning...drool....

thanks in advance

I want a dvd burner =/

sif buy one, wait until they get a little cheaper.

yeah you'll regret buying it just like most people who bought...yes <- that is the correct spelling a cd-burner in the early days

New sony model is now available, 510A. It is cheaper than the 500A model too.

me also wants a dvd burner

too hard to back up stuff to cd these days

is that right Kath? the 500A looked sweet but damned expensive.

Spook it's cheaper to have a massive hdd than a dvd-burner

Thats a fact but it's sure handy to just drop half a season of TV on one DVD to give to a mate than knocking HDDs around the country side.

Besides with 500GB on HD already, it's nice to have something larger than sodding CD's or worse ye,t frigging tapes, to backup up the really important stuff.

:)

Spook it's cheaper to have a massive hdd than a dvd-burner

true, I just got another 40 gig Hdd (second hand) the other day for 70 bucks.

cheaper than a burner, :D

yer, i dont particularly want to buy a harddrive and fill it up and take it out of the machine;
i could burn lots of dvds though;

i can wait, i just gotta pray that my deskstar doesnt go belly up before i can afford a dvd burner else my lifetime collection of tunes are gone for ever and id be one sad panda

is that right Kath? the 500A looked sweet but damned expensive.

I don't want to step on any toes or break any rules, but I will say we have the 510's for under $550

I don't want to step on any toes or break any rules, but I will say we have the 510's for under $550

oh soooooo cheap :P.

i'm gonna go out there and buy one right now, :P. as if!

Spook it's cheaper to have a massive hdd than a dvd-burner

Sooooo TRUE!!
Think about it its like what? $4-5 per DVD-/+R which can store 4.7 gig which is like average $1 per gig plus the initial cost of 400-700 for the burner itself. GameDude (Hi Kath) have just updated their prices and they have like 100 gig hdd's for 200 bucks! More than half the price of the burner but more per gig than the media.

I was going to get a Sony DRU (whatever it was) OCAU had a $575 special for OCAU members (Normally 699 @ GD). But then another HDD would still be cheaper! And really....how much stuff have you got to "back-up". If you were downloading 30-50 gig a month, maybe youd need a dvd burner.

yeh, i think that Hdd's are better but what happens if the HDD fails?

Isn't there more chance of the HDD failing than a CD?

Benneth. You can use RAID to create redundancy. That way, if a HD dies you don’t loose your data.

Having said that, HD's aren't a backup device by rule. If you want true disaster recovery you need to get the data away form the original device by some means and store it in a safe place. And yes, optical media is more reliable than a HD.


ET

on the subject of hard drives, those usb ide hdd caddies are a f***ing excellent idea for transporting hdd's around

plug 'n' play baby

i still think dvd burners are not worth the money atm, i remember the first cd-burners..s*** speeds real expensive, poor software.... ie not worth the bucks

remember my dad buying us a 4x sony it was like the top at the time , and he got it from malaysia and it was cheaper than here it costed him 400 bucks and now its worth no more than 5 bucks.

I dunno. I was looking at an LG DVD burner and it's now about $390. That's a pretty decent price considering it'll burn and play DVDs, burn and play CDs. I know a DVD player is only $70 these days as is a CD burner. But it's a nice combo and you get the added functionality od burning DVDs.

Especially good if you're a home video enthusiast and want to encode your own movies.

I like the thaught of throwing 30 DVDs in one of those cute fold out cloth caddies to transport my s*** around. like say *cough*stargate 'n stuff*cough* to QGL.

IF I threw 5 HDDS in my duffle and carted them around the country side, I'd be decidely more nervous.

Scratch a DVDR = gosh darn.
Scratcg a 120Gb HDD = oh F*CK!!!!

/me feels nuke coming, I think I said naughty thing. ;)

I'm probably gonna sound like a mong but you can't burn retail DVD moofies on a DVD rom burner? Can you? Just that I heard there was some sort of protection or size limit that prevents it?

Spook it's cheaper to have a massive hdd than a dvd-burner

yeah but what if you have lots of stuff on your hard drive, go buy another one, then fill it up, and another one, soon you have 10 controller cards and a s***load of hard drives?

I wouldn't mind a DVD burner, but as yet I can't think of any legit use I would have for one so I won't be getting one. When I have lots of s*** to back up then maybe

but you can't burn retail DVD moofies on a DVD rom burner?

I very much doubt you could burn DVD movies (unless decrypted with DVD Decrypter to HD first). You'd be better off ripping to DivX/Ac3 so you can get five or so movies per DVD.

muhahahahaha

That's a pretty decent price considering it'll burn and play DVDs,

what was the speeds but?
4x dvd burning? or the normal 2x? (4x = 15 min burn right? and 2x i assume is 30 min?)

The LG is slow (2x/1x) but it supports DVD Ram (admittedly old std) which is ideal for incremental file backups.

Trolling through the specs of the Sony 510, jeez it's fast. No DVD RAM but strewth, it does 4x for DVD anything and 24x for CDR.

However, the DRU-510A will be the first drive to burn DVD+RW at 4X

Damn, me thinks it might be teh winna

with dvd burner speeds they are differnt to your cd burner.for example 2x dvd write would be as fast as 16x cdr geddit?

There are a few ways you can *ahem* "backup" regular DVDs to a DVDR. The only thing that really stops you is size. And most, well quite a lot of DVDs aren't actually more than 4.5GB anyway. There are several retail packages that are so simple any dummy could do it.

As for the speed of the thing, *shrugs* 2x DVD burning is still quite fast. And frankly if I'm archiving several gig of data or creating my own "Funniest Skrybes Videos" I'll probably set it going and wander off and do something else anyway.

CodeBasher....the good thing about the sony is it supports both + and - formats. Cept its like 100-200 bucks more.

look at all the warez rats flock to this thread :P

speaking of warez hi skitza !

heh, me ended up getting the new Sony-510


happy happy joy joy.

4x goodness.

heh

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,110775,00.asp

heh, me ended up getting the new Sony-510


happy happy joy joy.

4x goodness.

Any problems, let us know.

I'm probably gonna sound like a mong but you can't burn retail DVD moofies on a DVD rom burner? Can you? Just that I heard there was some sort of protection or size limit that prevents it?

yeh i think thats true, DVD movies have some protection or something, i read it somewhere can't remember though.

To give credit where credit is due. Saturday morning, straight in, no line in fast lane, got mah goodies, straight out.

Huge improvement over shopping for bits and pieces 10 months ago.

good darts.

:)

give credit to who?

give credit to who?

Saturday morning, straight in straight out.

not gamedude.

not gamedude.

yeah it was, sure surprised me.

:)