LG drives faster than LITEON

[Citizen X]

In my experience the LG optical disk drives are faster for ripping music. It's like the LITEON has no cache.

 

[T_Yamamoto]

In my experience the LG optical disk drives are faster for ripping music. It's like the LITEON has no cache.

You get what you pay for

 

[jaydeee]

I like this 2 brands...
This is good to know the information that they do not cache.

 

[BrightCandle]

Good to know. As far as I know no one has done any performance tests on DVD drivers in a very long time. There used to be quite significant differences but I doubt I have seen a DVD drive roundup in 5 years or more. I guess pretty soon it wont matter, its becoming possible to run a machine without one.

 

[mikeymikec]

Good to know? Citizen_X goes around leaving one-liner posts all over the forum including "AMD owns all!" a few times and you treat his words here like they contained any facts.

A quick google suggests that the cheap-and-cheerful LiteON drive I've used has 2MB cache. I strongly suspect that every modern DVD writer out there has a certain amount of cache. I really couldn't care less what brand drive I use as long as it is reliable and performs well. I'm not going to say that I think the LiteON drive or the Samsung/TSST drives in my current PC build are better or worse than other models I've tried because frankly there are too many variables such as PC specs and the discs being used for testing.

I'm sure everyone has seen a disc being read from especially quickly or especially not one time or another. I know I have. However I'm not going to jump on a forum saying that "drive X is awesomeness maximus!!11!" because I think it performs better than some other one.

 

[mfenn]

Good to know? Citizen_X goes around leaving one-liner posts all over the forum including "AMD owns all!" a few times and you treat his words here like they contained any facts.

A quick google suggests that the cheap-and-cheerful LiteON drive I've used has 2MB cache. I strongly suspect that every modern DVD writer out there has a certain amount of cache. I really couldn't care less what brand drive I use as long as it is reliable and performs well. I'm not going to say that I think the LiteON drive or the Samsung/TSST drives in my current PC build are better or worse than other models I've tried because frankly there are too many variables such as PC specs and the discs being used for testing.

I'm sure everyone has seen a disc being read from especially quickly or especially not one time or another. I know I have. However I'm not going to jump on a forum saying that "drive X is awesomeness maximus!!11!" because I think it performs better than some other one.

:thumbsup::thumbsup: Agree. If the OP were to post some benchmarks, I would be more inclined to believe his assertions.

 

[T_Yamamoto]

:thumbsup::thumbsup: Agree. If the OP were to post some benchmarks, I would be more inclined to believe his assertions.

to me, all cd drives are the same

they all do the same thing

 

[mikeymikec]

to me, all cd drives are the same

they all do the same thing

So you do or you don't "get what you pay for" as you said earlier?

 

[corkyg]

That's why I stay with my good old Pioneer slot feed.

 

[Meghan54]

That's why I stay with my good old Pioneer slot feed.

Wish I'd kept mine.

The only complaint I ever had with LiteOn was they were louder then hell. My Samsungs, LGs, and Asus optical drives are all quieter while running than any LiteOn. Haven't bought one of them for years, now.

 

[Bman123]

I have a lite on drive that's loud, mu old LG one was pretty quiet compared to it. As long as it reads my discs reliably I don't care who makes it because honestly I hardly ever use it.

 

[DigDog]

daddy, what is an optical drive?

 

[mikeymikec]

I went from using LiteON to Samsung for a while because LiteON's drives were unnecessarily spinning up to full speed. Samsungs' drives are nice and quiet, but recently I've found that they couldn't handle DVD recordables as well as their predecessors and other drives. I've tried recorded discs in other identical-model Samsung drives though and they had the same problem, regardless of firmware.


My Samsung drive also has a tendency not to drop discs onto the tray properly and jam the drive during the eject sequence, though admittedly I think that my Samsung drive is on the way out. It has also acquired the habit of jamming up while loading a DVD movie, rendering the system partly inoperable, not recovering, then on reboot the drive sometimes disappears from the list of drives.

Recent LiteON drives don't seem to have the same problems as the old ones did. <tries a random disc> yep, I can just hear the drive as if it was an additional very quiet fan, but that's it. Within 10-15 seconds of the initial spin-up, the disc has spun back down presumably due to an idle time-out. I just tried a DVD disc in there as well and it spun up a bit louder for about 2 seconds, then down to the 'v.quiet fan sound', then idled quickly again. I watched a DVD with it the other day and I like my system running extremely quietly (silence would be nice), and I wasn't thinking "damn this drive is loud" while watching the film like I used to with drives about 5-7 years ago.

My LiteON drive is the iHAS124.

I used to have a Pioneer slot drive about a decade ago, though back then drives got used a lot more than they do now, and it died after (I think) 2 - 4 years of use.

 

[bononos]

I like this 2 brands...
This is good to know the information that they do not cache.

Theres cache memory on Liteons. And it seems to be pointless by shaving off cache when it costs so little anyway. The newer Liteons have some anti noise/vibration system so its fairly silent (owner of ihas324). Liteons have the reputation of more accessible firmware options for region free/ripping.

 

[bryanl]

That's why I stay with my good old Pioneer slot feed.

Those old Japanese opticals seem to last forever. My NEC ND2500A burners have outlived several newer BenQs and Lite-Ons, but I can't use the NECs exclusively since they've never been great at reading badly scratched disks.