*DEAD*Samsung 22X SATA DVD Burner for $17.99 free ship at NewEgg

[msi1337]

Newegg put this item on sale, but it already had a promo code on it as well. please see link below. My total was $17.99 shipped!

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16827151192

SAMSUNG Black 22X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 16X DVD+R DL 22X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 12X DVD-RAM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2MB Cache SATA CD/DVD Burner - OEM

 

[Pardus]

promo code is BHDAPR14, ends 4/18. Samsung has incorporated a feature called Riplock in their firmware

 

[marmasatt]

Nice deal. That's great. I just got one for $17.99AR the other day and I was thrilled.

 

[Sniper82]

I don't need this but man its a good deal. Tempting just to have a spare.

 

[Gillbot]

in for one, thanks op

I don't need it but a 2nd drive for this price never hurts

 

[jjmIII]

I'm sure the price is related to the bad reviews net-wide. Still a hard deal to pass up!

 

[tomatom]

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IN FOR ONE

Thanx OP , Thanx ANANDTECH , tHANX nEWeGG

 

[jjdeltor]

In for one as well.

- J

 

[SunnyD]

Thanks. Needed one for my HTPC build.

 

[nycdude]

in 4 1 to replace my old ide

 

[sgrinavi]

I just purchased a lite-on for $18.99 and thought I got a smokin deal... It's just a buck, but..... well... you know

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

nice deal

 

[SunRey]

Thank You!

 

[TurtleCrusher]

HOT DEAL!

I'll pass though. I still have my $60 IDE Sony DVD Burner. It does 16x and dual layer, So it's still extremely serviceable.

 

[Lanyap]

Great price. In for 1. I'm a little concerned about the ratings - 31% one egg. That's pretty high for a Samsung burner.

 

[poofyhairguy]

I have two of these and I want others to know:

These drives are the absolute best drives if you plan on using a Lian Li case with a metal drive cover. The circular buttons perfectly match up with the Lian Li bay cover buttons without extra padding.

If you have a Lian Li case and you hate how your drive works with it, get this instead.

 

[superHARD]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827151192

This one? Man lots of bad reviews!

 

[ClockerXP]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16827151192

This one? Man lots of bad reviews!

My thought exactly. I'll pass and stick with my IDE Plextor.

 

[Gillbot]

I take newegg reviews with a grain of salt.

 

[jjmIII]

I take newegg reviews with a grain of salt.

If you sort the one egg reviews, some are pretty wacky. I bought one regardless. Smokin no rebate deal.

 

[SunnyD]

Mine came in today. My wife tells me the shipping label shows it coming from the Newegg RMA Department. I didn't pay for a recert drive... I paid for a new one. Hmm...

 

[jjmIII]

They ship new stuff out of that wharehouse too. I have gotten new items from that very location.

 

[RaistlinZ]

If it sounds too good to be true...

 

[Meghan54]

If it sounds too good to be true...

Well, all I can say is that I've had one of these for about a year. Bought it at MicroCenter as a bare OEM drive for $19.99. Has worked flawlessly. Reads everything, has burned numerous discs--CD and DVD--without a single coaster.

I've put these drives into a bunch of builds I've done for others....over a couple of dozen.....and have had no complaints from anyone. The systems are running XP, Vista, and Win7, so a variety of OS's.

I don't know about all those "complaints" on Newegg. A LOT sound like problems other than a DVD drive can give..... "It is not Samsung. Some funny name..."---this got one egg and it's a TSST, which is one of Samsung's corporate entities.

Or "Takes hours to burn any type of media." Odd, mine takes no time to burn anything I ask of it using Nero, Ashampoo, PowerISO, UltraISO, among other programs.

As for DOA's, etc., things happen, but most of those errors sound like people burning downloaded movies, operator error, etc.

Anyway, thanks OP---I bought another tonight because of the price, the reliability I've experienced, and it's always good to have a spare around.

 

[Zap]

I don't know about all those "complaints" on Newegg. ..... "It is not Samsung. Some funny name..."---this got one egg and it's a TSST, which is one of Samsung's corporate entities.

Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology

Basically a few years back Samsung and Toshiba merged their optical drive divisions to create TSST. The resulting drives are often still branded Samsung. AFAIK there is no new "Samsung" drive that is not a TSST.