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Whelp, I'd always thought Plextor were the best but it seems they are just as prone to failure as all the others if my experience is anything to go by.
I had a Plextor PX 800A DVDRW drive installed in my main AMD machine. It was manufactured in March 2007. It has had what I'd describe as 'Medium' use, it certainly was not used as much as the Asus DVDRW on my main machine.
Over the last few weeks I noticed it sometimes failed to burn DVD's, both data and movie, within Nero 8 using Windows XP. Then it wouldn't burn any DVD's at all. It would still, however, burn audio and data CD's (as opposed to DVD's).
Also tried to burn a data DVD using the Plextor within Linux Mint - no go.
So this evening I swapped out the Plextor for a rather old Samsung DVDRW that I took out of my sister's old scrapped computer. Now although this replacement optical drive is probably five years old I know it's rarely been used to do any burning by my sister so in actual fact it's almost new.
I have just successfully burnt 2 video DVD's from flv files using Nero 8 and also one data DVD with no problems using the Samsung DVDRW.
So it seems the three year old Plextor drive is faulty.
Well I never. I always thought Plextor made superior drives as they charge more money for their product than all the others. Not so, it seems.
In my main machine I have an Asus DVDRW that is at least 4 years old. It does a lot of burning and it's still doing exactly what it should do.
No bias here, merely reporting things as they happen but I think it's the last time I'll spend any extra on an optical drive, a component which in my experience has the highest failure record of any PC component.
I had a Plextor PX 800A DVDRW drive installed in my main AMD machine. It was manufactured in March 2007. It has had what I'd describe as 'Medium' use, it certainly was not used as much as the Asus DVDRW on my main machine.
Over the last few weeks I noticed it sometimes failed to burn DVD's, both data and movie, within Nero 8 using Windows XP. Then it wouldn't burn any DVD's at all. It would still, however, burn audio and data CD's (as opposed to DVD's).
Also tried to burn a data DVD using the Plextor within Linux Mint - no go.
So this evening I swapped out the Plextor for a rather old Samsung DVDRW that I took out of my sister's old scrapped computer. Now although this replacement optical drive is probably five years old I know it's rarely been used to do any burning by my sister so in actual fact it's almost new.
I have just successfully burnt 2 video DVD's from flv files using Nero 8 and also one data DVD with no problems using the Samsung DVDRW.
So it seems the three year old Plextor drive is faulty.
Well I never. I always thought Plextor made superior drives as they charge more money for their product than all the others. Not so, it seems.
In my main machine I have an Asus DVDRW that is at least 4 years old. It does a lot of burning and it's still doing exactly what it should do.
No bias here, merely reporting things as they happen but I think it's the last time I'll spend any extra on an optical drive, a component which in my experience has the highest failure record of any PC component.
