The TY -R DLs are currently not on the market in the US due to "compatability" issues. I got that straight from TY USA. It also appears that the TY DLs in Europe are pretty scarce or possibly discontinued.

Maybe TY is working on the situation. In my experience no one making DLs with the "inverse stack method" is having much luck with consistancy, other than consistantly bad. Verbatim is the only manufacturer that I know that can make a consistantly good DL product, but that's with the old, more expensive way.

Maybe it's a firmware thing. Whatever it is, someone I'm sure is working on it as DL media sales doubled last year and the first manufacturers who can get it right stand to make a killing just by undercutting Verbatim by a nickle a disc.

Thanks for the infos hobbit :-)

Greensman & Loco!!!

Not thinking of spending $64.00 that's just an old saying $64.00 Question ! Was just interested in the Samsung as a possible replacement for The Benq 1655 whenever it Dies ? May just buy one and keep it on the side until the inevitable happens ? Will probably have to buy a sata Card as my old Emachines is Pata & not sata ! anyways Guys thanks for the help and Keep up the good work !!!!!!!!!!!!Ciao!!!

@bigtoxy,
if you are looking for a replacement lightscribe drive the
new lite on 20a1h is not bad. its not even close to the quality
of 1655 but its not too bad.

I'm in the same boat as you BIGTOXY and have actually been thinking of a SATA PCI card so that I can run one of these baby's. Ah the list just keeps growing and growing.

Would a SATA PCI sard make it run any slower seeing as it's not a direct connection to the mobo?

I actually haven't researched it that much, but I'd venture to guess not being a direct connection there will be some loss....how much I don't know and it may be negligible.

Well, I don't know how SATA and PCI match up speed wise for the connection, but if you're downsizing SATA > PCI then surely there would be a loss?

I got a sata2 card inorder to install a sata burner & hd. The specs said: 66 MHz PCI bus supports up to 266MB/sec burst data transfer rate.

I'ts a Promise SATA300 TX4 PCI SATA II Controller Card and I haven't had any problems with it that I know of. It's the only ide sata2 card with 4 ports that I've found.

Running a Lite-on LH-20a1s and a Seagate Barracuda 250GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive off it, fast & quiet.

Think that confirms there shouldn't be any problem with the PCI option then :-)

@ BT69,
I forget your age sometimes and don't "revert" back a few generations to "recognize" the speech you're throwing out. LOL. Yes I remember the $64 question. :) There are a few Optical drives that I would look at the Samsung SH-S203B is one of them. :) Thanks for visiting and don't be a stranger. :)

....gm

@hobbit,
Thanks for the info and other options available. :)