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Second SATA DVD Burner for 09 MP?
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My experience is that optical drives are all the same. Just choose based on specs and price...and brand loyalty.
Pioneer and most Sony drives have traditionally had the best compatibility driver-wise, since Apple has used them as OEM drives for many years. However, many other brands have been reported to work equally well too....
Suggest you lookie at the user reports database over at www.xlr8yourmac.com and search for reports on whatever drives you are considering.....
And BTW, SATA is NOT new to the MP
Suggest you lookie at the user reports database over at www.xlr8yourmac.com and search for reports on whatever drives you are considering.....
And BTW, SATA is NOT new to the MP
And BTW, SATA is NOT new to the MP
SATA ODDs are, though. They've been ATA since inception.
They aren't. There are huge differences in quality. Plextors used to be among the top but these days they just sell rebranded Pioneers (which have traditionally performed very well among the cheap drives). Pioneer DVR-216(D) would be the obvious choice.
I have added a Pioneer 216 as a second drive (Firmware 1.09) after reading about it being quiet. My example reads and writes media fine. (It buzzes with badly balance media that the factory "HL-DT-ST DVD-RW GH41N" doesn't mind so much).
Twice now however I have had a strange problem. On both occasions I had left a disc unused in the drive for 30 minutes or more. When trying to eject the icon would disappear from the desktop but the tray would fail to open. On trying to eject again the Finder would give the "you have inserted a blank disc" dialogue. Eject or cancel just gave the same dialogue again. What is more disk utility and Toast no longer recognised the presence of the drive itself at all.
On both occasions the only solution was a restart (a log out didn't work). After this the drive worked OK again.
I'd be interested to know if anyone else has had the same symptom?
Twice now however I have had a strange problem. On both occasions I had left a disc unused in the drive for 30 minutes or more. When trying to eject the icon would disappear from the desktop but the tray would fail to open. On trying to eject again the Finder would give the "you have inserted a blank disc" dialogue. Eject or cancel just gave the same dialogue again. What is more disk utility and Toast no longer recognised the presence of the drive itself at all.
On both occasions the only solution was a restart (a log out didn't work). After this the drive worked OK again.
I'd be interested to know if anyone else has had the same symptom?