Your advice please, external DVD burner, is La CIE ...

[igmolinav]

Hi,

I wanted to ask you for your advice as I am about to buy an external DVD burner for my laptop. With regard to that I have the following questions:

1) I look for a DVD burner with the following characteristics: I want it to be fast, double layer. I am not so excited about the lightscribe thing, but if compared to the price of other DVD burners then I´ll get it.
What would be your top choice/recommendation for someone like myself who wants to buy an external DVD burner for a Mac ??


2) I saw many La CIE DVD external burners in the following links.
Why or why not you would choose the brand & model that you have recommended me over the La CIE ??

Link 1:
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APP...676PL2AmtXcp1ZScX79G/2.0.19.1.0.8.25.7.11.8.3

Link 2:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref...ded&keywords=la+cie+dvd&Go.x=14&Go.y=12&Go=Go

Link 3:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...Ntk=all&N=0&minPrice=&maxPrice=&Go.x=0&Go.y=0


3) Is it worth it buying an external DVD burner if I´ll be burning between 3-4 DVDs a week ???

Thank you very much,

Igmolinav

 

[Leareth]

I have the LaCie DL external DVD burner and I love it
It is less moody with the various brands of DVD media than other burners.
If you have one brand of media you constantly use its not a problem but I go between 6-7 brands and DVD-R or DVD+R formats...but does not like fujifilm 16X DVD-R discs...
a friend of mine swears by the Pioneer drives , they work well, but moody with no-name brand media, still works but a slow speed
the NEC drives are pretty good too.

The LaCie Drive is the best, and you pay for that.
I have yet to have a badly burned disc from it.

Edit: Plextor drives are good too , I was going to get one but the LaCie one came out that week...

 

[cuts]

i don't like la cie...

personally, i've had bad experience with la cie. paid $190au for a dl dvd drive, and it crapped out after just 14 months, having very little use in that time. at the most i burnt 10 dvd's with it. when i spoke to la cie customer "support", thier response was that the drive was broken. like i didn't already know that. a lot of people have had good luck with la cie, but way more people have had bad luck with them. go with the odds and invest in another brand.