DVD writer

[lynx]

You are talking about computer parts, there's no such thing as a spec that won't outdate for a year or 2. Having said that, there isn't going to be much more development on ordinary DVD drives, simply because of HD-DVD and Blu-Ray.

There's no significant speed difference between 16x and 20x writers, none of them write at max speed over the full width of the disk, and media capable of being written at more than 16x will be

1. expensive (as pointed out by clocker)
2. rare as hen's teeth

The same applies to rewritable and DL media, so don't bother considering the drives which claim to be superfast in those areas, you will be paying for performance which you almost certainly won't use.

Here's a list of the one's I'd probably consider.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...714697&name=8X
Although they are on the list, I wouldn't personally bother with Sony or Samsung, those are the two manufacturers whose products have let me down, and from their reaction to faults I don't believe they have any interest in helping their customers.

[kooftspc11]

stay away from the samsung writemaster series

Actually I was just about to recommend an external DVD burner from this series. I purchased it off of this review:
http://www.cdfreaks.com/reviews/Sams...Burner-Review/

Almost 150 discs without a hitch (DVDRs with Imgburn using Verbatims)

Curious as to why you say to stay away from them?

the reason why i highly recommend against buying this drive is that it reads almost NO cd media. so if you wanna use this drive say goodbye to booting off iso discs. for every 20 discs i put in there...it may read one. i am highly unsatisfied with this drive and i wouldn't wish its purchase on my worst enemy....the internal drive**

[cRaZyzMaN]

pioneer or asus, they work just fine

[kirktrix]

Thanks to all your reply... I already bought a DVD Burner this afternoon....Thanks again....



http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16827135149