Pioneer DVR-212DD or Sony/NEC (AD-7220S-0B or AD-7200S-0B)?

Hi all.

I am debating on which SATA DVD+CD burner to get for my next computer
upgrade. I am still using my old Plextor CD burner and it is time to
retire it and go DVD! Which one would you pick -- PioneerDVR-212DD or
Sony/NEC (AD-7220S-0B or AD-7200S-0B)? They cost about 30 bucks.

I will be doing CD and DVD burning (copy, importing with multiple
sessions, copy CDs and DVDs, etc.). I do have an old IDE/PATA DVD-ROM
drive for playing music, watching movies, being source when copying
discs, etc.

Any recommendations? Thank you in advance.
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Hi all.

All slashed his wrists, he got too many posts.

I am debating on which SATA DVD+CD burner to get for my next computer
upgrade. I am still using my old Plextor CD burner and it is time to
retire it and go DVD! Which one would you pick -- PioneerDVR-212DD or
Sony/NEC (AD-7220S-0B or AD-7200S-0B)? They cost about 30 bucks.

Neither. I prefer LGs, they arent as fussy about the media.

I will be doing CD and DVD burning (copy, importing with multiple sessions,
copy CDs and DVDs, etc.). I do have an old IDE/PATA DVD-ROM drive for
playing music, watching movies, being source when copying discs, etc.

Its generally better to have the DVD burner as the source now.

Any recommendations?

I prefer LGs, they arent as fussy about the media.

Thank you in advance.

This is no laughing matter boy.

If you depend on Nero's disk quality test, it won't work with the Pioneer.


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In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Ant wrote:
Hi all.

I am debating on which SATA DVD+CD burner to get for my next computer
upgrade. I am still using my old Plextor CD burner and it is time to
retire it and go DVD! Which one would you pick -- PioneerDVR-212DD or
Sony/NEC (AD-7220S-0B or AD-7200S-0B)? They cost about 30 bucks.

I will be doing CD and DVD burning (copy, importing with multiple
sessions, copy CDs and DVDs, etc.). I do have an old IDE/PATA DVD-ROM
drive for playing music, watching movies, being source when copying
discs, etc.

Any recommendations? Thank you in advance.

I recenlty looked at two drives with regard to DVD-RAM. the Lite On
managed to kill disks (which is supposed to be pretty hard), a Samsumg
203P (SATA) did very well. It also did very well for CDs. Did not
test DVD-nonRAM, since they basically all suck badly.

Arno

On 12/18/2008 2:53 PM PT, Rod Speed typed:

Ant wrote:

Hi all.

All slashed his wrists, he got too many posts.

I am debating on which SATA DVD+CD burner to get for my next computer
upgrade. I am still using my old Plextor CD burner and it is time to
retire it and go DVD! Which one would you pick -- PioneerDVR-212DD or
Sony/NEC (AD-7220S-0B or AD-7200S-0B)? They cost about 30 bucks.

Neither. I prefer LGs, they arent as fussy about the media.

I will be doing CD and DVD burning (copy, importing with multiple sessions,
copy CDs and DVDs, etc.). I do have an old IDE/PATA DVD-ROM drive for
playing music, watching movies, being source when copying discs, etc.

Its generally better to have the DVD burner as the source now.

But I will have to swap discs during copy. I just want to do direct
copy from CD/DVD drive to the burner. That is how I did it with my old
Plextor CD burner drive.
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On 12/18/2008 4:18 PM PT, Ed Light typed:

If you depend on Nero's disk quality test, it won't work with the Pioneer.

How come it doens't work? What does Pioneer drives do differently? I
noticed the drives come with Nero OEM.
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I forgot to mention I will use DVDRW too.


On 12/18/2008 1:52 PM PT, Ant typed:

Hi all.

I am debating on which SATA DVD+CD burner to get for my next computer
upgrade. I am still using my old Plextor CD burner and it is time to
retire it and go DVD! Which one would you pick -- PioneerDVR-212DD or
Sony/NEC (AD-7220S-0B or AD-7200S-0B)? They cost about 30 bucks.

I will be doing CD and DVD burning (copy, importing with multiple
sessions, copy CDs and DVDs, etc.). I do have an old IDE/PATA DVD-ROM
drive for playing music, watching movies, being source when copying
discs, etc.

Any recommendations? Thank you in advance.
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On 12/18/2008 4:48 PM PT, Arno Wagner typed:

I am debating on which SATA DVD+CD burner to get for my next computer
upgrade. I am still using my old Plextor CD burner and it is time to
retire it and go DVD! Which one would you pick -- PioneerDVR-212DD or
Sony/NEC (AD-7220S-0B or AD-7200S-0B)? They cost about 30 bucks.

I will be doing CD and DVD burning (copy, importing with multiple
sessions, copy CDs and DVDs, etc.). I do have an old IDE/PATA DVD-ROM
drive for playing music, watching movies, being source when copying
discs, etc.

Any recommendations? Thank you in advance.

I recenlty looked at two drives with regard to DVD-RAM. the Lite On
managed to kill disks (which is supposed to be pretty hard), a Samsumg
203P (SATA) did very well. It also did very well for CDs. Did not
test DVD-nonRAM, since they basically all suck badly.

Is DVD-RAM, DVD+RW and DVD-RW? Or something else?
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On 12/18/2008 2:53 PM PT, Rod Speed typed:

Hi all.

All slashed his wrists, he got too many posts.

Eh? I don't get your joke.


I am debating on which SATA DVD+CD burner to get for my next computer
upgrade. I am still using my old Plextor CD burner and it is time to
retire it and go DVD! Which one would you pick -- PioneerDVR-212DD or
Sony/NEC (AD-7220S-0B or AD-7200S-0B)? They cost about 30 bucks.

Neither. I prefer LGs, they arent as fussy about the media.

What media problems did you run into with Pioneer and Sony/NEC drives
that I mentioned? I don't buy cheap nobrand discs. I do buy brand names
like TDK, Memorex, Sony, etc.
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On 12/18/2008 4:48 PM PT, Arno Wagner typed:

I am debating on which SATA DVD+CD burner to get for my next computer
upgrade. I am still using my old Plextor CD burner and it is time to
retire it and go DVD! Which one would you pick -- PioneerDVR-212DD or
Sony/NEC (AD-7220S-0B or AD-7200S-0B)? They cost about 30 bucks.

I will be doing CD and DVD burning (copy, importing with multiple
sessions, copy CDs and DVDs, etc.). I do have an old IDE/PATA DVD-ROM
drive for playing music, watching movies, being source when copying
discs, etc.

Any recommendations? Thank you in advance.

I recenlty looked at two drives with regard to DVD-RAM. the Lite On
managed to kill disks (which is supposed to be pretty hard), a Samsumg
203P (SATA) did very well. It also did very well for CDs. Did not
test DVD-nonRAM, since they basically all suck badly.

Is DVD-RAM, DVD+RW and DVD-RW? Or something else?

It is a Samsung SH-S203P SATA drive, that can do DVD-RAM,
DVD+/-R also DL and DVD+/-RW.

However I have no idea as to the write quality for the non-RAM
formats (I bought it as replacement for an ageing MOD). The one
DVD+RW I burned with a CentOS image worked fine for a day and
I never used it again afterwards.

One thing I like though, is that disks get far less warm than in
Lite ON, as the tray in the Samsung has ventilation holes. I assume
that will give an advantage on any burn.

Arno