Quiet SATA DVD burner

[asintu]

What's a good/quiet SATA DVD burner?

 

[corkyg]

The best quiet burners are external - SATA or PATA doesn't metter. I like my Samsung, my Plextor, and even my H-P.

 

[Arcanedeath]

I've had good luck w/ Asus sata DVD drives both the 18x and 20x models

 

[Peter]

The Samsung drives are pretty good in avoiding vibration resonance, thanks to their unique "Ball Balancing" system (not kidding!), and their motor is quiet.

I have just one complaint: Mine do seem to have a tendency of spinning the DVD faster than necessary when I watch a movie, but that might just as well be owed to the way Linux accesses the drive in that situation.

 

[BoboKatt]

Really consider the Asus ones. I have an LG 20, a Plextor 18 (paid a fortune for it and really it's a Pioneer) and I have an Asus as well ( all SATA). The Asus is so quiet I usually have to look at the light to see if it's actually burning. It also, I found, does not spin up like made when I place a CD/DVD in initially or when the burning finishes.

+1 for Asus on these.

I find the Plextor is loud and so is the LG. However the Plextor keeps dropping connection all the time. Some times I boot up, it?s there? other times it?s not and I have to reboot twice to get it back. I tried replacing the SATA cable, changing SATA slot? nothing. The Asus just works all the time. Maybe I just got a bumn Plextor as I know they are known to be simply the best.

 

[Tweakin]

I'd go with a Samsung drive...just bought one to replace my Plextor and it is so nice I bought another for my other system...just cause.

 

[Arcanedeath]

Just as a note both the 20x and 18x Asus drives I have are the quietest DVD drives I've ever owned and I've used samsung drives in the past (and still do in some other systems) but the Asus drives blow the Samsungs out of the water noise wise. Samsung isn't bad but it just doesn't compare when it comes to silence for DVD drives.

 

[programmer]

Do you happen to have model numbers for the Asus drives? The last Asus I had, three years ago, was LOUD -- like a vacuum cleaner.

 

[BoboKatt]

Gahh I need to head home after work and will post the model number. The one I bought was a retail unit.. with the box, manuals, cable and support. Right on the box I remember it mentioned something about "quiet technology". Now that I look at the store I bought it from, they no longer have it.. just OEM Asus ones. I will double check tonight for the model number for yah.

 

[Mango1970]

OK here is the model number for the Asus DVD-RW

Asus DRW-1814BLT

 

[Excelsior]

I like my Samsung drive.

 

[programmer]

Thanks, but it appears that model may now be discontinued. A friend at work was talking up his Pioneer DVD-Writer as very quiet (he uses it in a HTPC) and never has problems burning to any media (including DL).

 

[Wolfcastle]

Originally posted by: Peter
The Samsung drives are pretty good in avoiding vibration resonance, thanks to their unique "Ball Balancing" system (not kidding!), and their motor is quiet.

I have just one complaint: Mine do seem to have a tendency of spinning the DVD faster than necessary when I watch a movie, but that might just as well be owed to the way Linux accesses the drive in that situation.

I just got an internal Samsung DVD writer that supposedly has a vibration absorber. I have it running inside a closet, and I can still hear it from outside of it.

So far, it doesn't seem to be a bad DVD writer, but it's definitely not quiet.

 

[Peter]

Mine (three currently) are pretty effective in balancing out the vibrations. All drives are inherently loud at high speeds - that's mostly owed to the high airspeed around the disc spinning at 10k rpm - motor and vibration noise stand way back to that.

As I mentioned, the Samsung drives seem to have a tendency to spin the disc faster than really necessary when you're watching a movie - so depending on your choice of DVD viewing software, they may indeed be louder than others.

 

[Sheninat0r]

There is no such thing as a quiet optical drive at 16x speeds; if you want quiet, you'll want to get a drive and then use software to turn the speed down. Discs spin too fast at 16x to be even close to quiet.

 

[Peter]

That's what I was trying to say. Most of these fast drives attempt an intelligently adapting speed, automatically spinning down to whatever the data read rate produced by the application is. That should for example make them spin down to 1x speed for DVD viewing - but this doesn't always work.