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genuinelibra
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December 15th, 2004 00:00
inspiron 9100
Im looking for a dvd burner that is compatible with the inspirion 9100 i was looking at the internal slims but i dont know if any are compatible with my puter. Also I want one to mainly burn in -r. Am I going to have to get an external one? I was looking at the Pioneer dvr-108 does anyone know anything about this burner? Please help thanks
- i have the same labtop. It came with a sony 8x dvd burner. Technically, it's a lite-on but sony just put their same on it. The sony firmware will only do +R and will not burn anything faster than 4x, even with 8 x certified media. You can flash the sony drive and turn it into a liteon dive is you want to burn in -R
genuinelibra
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Posted December 28th, 2004 18:00
Thx for the reply but what does flash the sony blah blah blah mean? Please help me understand. I still havent gone out and gotten my burner yet due to christmas and the kids come first so maybe by the end of january I will be ready to role but im still doing research and the more feed back the better. Thx..Happy Holidays- i would get this one if you think the other brand are expensive.newegg is a really good company to buy computer hardware from
- your best bet is just to go with a dual format external dvd drive. They will burn the dvd much better than the slims drive that you can order from dell. Pioneer and Plextor, and TDK should do. When you buy it, make sure it can do -R and +R depending on your needs
genuinelibra
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Posted December 28th, 2004 19:00
Thx again u are a lifesaver saving me money. Thx for taking time out to do research for me , I do have a couple of questions about that liteon, first off I didnt see anything about it having firewire, should i worry about that and what is it exactly for. Second, is it cool to get a 8x when they have 16x out how fast will I be able to back up a dvd. Really for the price of this burner should I really be concerned about the speed?Thx again- There is no need for firewire support since you already have usb 2.0 on your inspiron9100. Most of the computer have usb support rather than firewire because usb are more common. You will not see a lot of speed improvement from 8x burn to 16x burn. To complete a whole dvd(4.7GB) with a 4x dvd burner, it will take about 16-18 minutes, with 8x burner, you will cut it down to about 8 minutes for a full dvd. And for the 16x drive, it will take about 6 minutes to complete a full dvd because most drive don't start out buring at 16x right away. It start out a 2x then work it way up to 16x at the outer track. And one more thing about 16x burner, if you want to burn at 16x, you will have to spent a lot more money to buy certified 16x media and only a few manufacturer actually have 16x media right now.cliff noteget an 8x burner. The lite on is pretty good for the money. I have the same drive except mine is internal.
genuinelibra
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Posted December 30th, 2004 00:00
Well explained..okay I'm gonna get the burner u recommended. I have to thank you for ur help because I was going to spend close to 200 bucks on a pioneer dvr 108 when I can get the same results from the liteon and I can purchase it a lot quicker now due to the drop in price. What kind of media do you use I was doing some research on a different site and they recommended a brand called ritek I dont want to start off making coasters so what do you use?- here are some good media code. The problem with buying dvd media is that you don't know what your going to get until you open the media and use dvdinfo to find out who make it. But i recommend buying media that's made is Japan and not Taiwan. Let's say you buy a pack of TDK media and expect it to be TDK, most of the time, another company will make it for them.here are some good media codemaxellmccricohjonsonytdk or ttgyuden same as taiyoyudengood luck
DELL-BobT
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Posted December 15th, 2004 13:00
guinelibra,
Thank you for using the Dell Community Forum.
Dell offers a few DVDRW drives for the Inspiron 9100: