Burned out burners

[big otis]

Ive had my dvd-rw/cd-rw toshiba in my sony vaio for about 6 months now, its my first burner, i got 1 question. do these cd drives wear down the more you write with them as opposed reading?

[cheapprick]

Yes, but six months is still excessive.

At least it should still be under warranty.

[bullsonparade]

if it doesnt wear down soon, your going to probably want to switch it in a couple of years when higher burning speeds are out. like my 8x, i just got a new CD-RW/DVD-ROM Drive :shy

[DainBramaged]

As far as blank DVD +/- R/RW media goes, there's not even very much 4x certified media out there, much less 8x certified. Speed is overrated for DVD burning at the moment, in my opinion.

[big otis]

mine isnt burnt out yet, im just concerned that i may be burning too much and maby i should cut a little then,

[origin]

it shouldnt be, with normal use I would give it a couple of years of life to it if you take care of it, IE: only put clean media in it, clean the lens on a regualr basis etc.

l8

[Wolfie]

I rather have mine burn out early while its under warrenty than the following day after warrenty expires... ;)

[origin]

I rather have mine burn out early while its under warrenty than the following day after warrenty expires... ;)


true dat..but my TDK burner has a 1-year warrenty on it and I've only had it for about 3 months, Its burned about 600 cd's no problem and its still running like a champ, Right around that 12th month mark TDK will be getting a call from me. :;)

l8

[Afn]

My experience with burners are that they slowly degrade over time and use.


I only use my burners for burning, and other cd drives for reading.
If I need a high quality copy of a cd, I burn it at the lowest or low burn rate. (x4) on my latest burner.
Drives wear-down and stop working AWAYS When you least expect drive failure.
Plan to buy a new burner about every 2 years.



As an aside in this post, I used the list bbcode. Cool!

[Aaron73153]

You might want to see about getting a protection plan, for my last 2 CD-Burners, i paid the extra $10 for a 1 year protection, since they were the cheap kind, they burt out within a year and I just brought it in for a new one! They also gave me an upgrade bcasue the speed I had wasn't made anymore. You might want to look into that.

[MikeHunt]

some more thoughts on burners....fastest is not always best.
Most CD burners between 8X to 32X do the job quite well , are cheaper , and produce less coasters.
The higher speed burners are generally more noisy and burn out faster.
"Multi purpose" CD/DVD burners tend to have a higher rate of laser failure.
You are better off having 2 seperate drives instead.

And I agree with everything afn (above) posted.

[michaelof36]

true dat..but my TDK burner has a 1-year warrenty on it and I've only had it for about 3 months, Its burned about 600 cd's no problem and its still running like a champ, Right around that 12th month mark TDK will be getting a call from me. :;)

l8

I just bought a TDK also not to long ago. On of the cd burners I have is probably one of the oldest out their. I know I have burned more than 600 cds in its lifetime and i have never had any type of failure. Its an HP 8200 series by the way. But recently I had to buy another because I got tired of the long waits for my old cd burner to finish one cd. It took about 30 min for a whole CD.