Lightscribe drives, best performance/value reliability.

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  1. Mighty Yoshimi

    Mighty Yoshimi Motormouth

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    What manufacturer to buy lightscribe from?

    I've loved NEC for a long time they certainly seem to last. Should i go for that?

    Cheers
     
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  2. Ramble

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    Sure, why not. From what I've heard NEC have a pretty good rep. in CD/DVD drives.
     
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  3. Valo

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    afaik nec don't have lightscribe though, they use labelflash which is much more gimmicky to get to work
     
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  4. M4RTIN

    M4RTIN What's a Dremel?

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    ive got a toshiba-samsung, seems alright. does dvd's and cd's fast enogh but its not that quiet. burning a full label at a decent contrast takes about an hour tho, so maybe some newer ones are faster
     
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    Just out of interest does it have to be lightscribe? I mean I've never seen the benefit myself.
     
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  6. Mighty Yoshimi

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    Its not for me its purely a novelty thing for a VERY organised friend, who dislikes writing on cd's. For 20 ish quid it seemed ideal.

    Thanks
     
    Mighty Yoshimi, 21 Dec 2006
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    gtnot What's a Dremel?

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    I have a Lite-On with Lightscribe...very happy with it. Works better than my Plextor SATA.
     
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    Fibbles What's a Dremel?

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    I've got a Samsung with Lightscribe and it's pretty good. It only takes about 15 minutes to print a pretty high contrast image. The drive itself is quiet.
     
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  9. Mighty Yoshimi

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    Excellent today i plan on going out and buying my friend one, thanks guys.
     
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    i got an HP one that works ok, only issue is if you have 2 CD drives attached to the IDE chain, one being the lightscribe, it seems to feck on the burning the top bit if you try and burn a 2nd disk in the 2nd CD drive.
     
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  11. Mighty Yoshimi

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    O dear, that doesn't sound very fun, thats very strange.
     
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  12. Buzzons

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    (that is, if what i said makes sense lol)
     
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  13. Mighty Yoshimi

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    Yeah, it does i can imagine the secondary non lightscribe driving having a hell of time with all those commands thrown at it. :p
     
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    yea :) -- not sure why but even if the lightscribe is set as master, other set as slave, if you start doing the lighscribe part on the master, then try to burn a simple dvd/cd on the slave the lightscribe app just errors/breaks/goes fubar and stops working. -- leaving a disk 1/2 lightscribed -- and as it takes an hour to do each disk it REALLY slows down your productivity not being able to burn disks and lightscribe them at the same time.
     
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  15. Mighty Yoshimi

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    yh, presume your running an ide HDD< cos if it's sata why not just use the second IDE interface, not as tidy, but it would work.
     
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  16. Buzzons

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    i was?

    ide master -> lightscribe
    ide slave -> normal DVD burner
    SATA -> disks
     
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  17. Mighty Yoshimi

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    OOh i thought you meant that you had two drives through on ide port, cause the cable as in IDE primary Drive 0 set to master Drive 1 Set to slave, as opposed to one through IDE Primary and one throught IDE secondary,

    If you get me
     
    Mighty Yoshimi, 22 Dec 2006
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