Post your DISC quality scans here 2

you'll not see many scores above a 95 ever! just look at the scans posted in this thread.

 

my once a year scan , looks like the Plextor/Pioneer ODDs are still holding up fine

 

from what i have read the line in the pie field should be a straight line and not all jumpy like how mine is

 

I wouldn't worry too much. An iHAS324 is a rebranded Optiarc. I haven't had an Optiarc produce a coaster EVER! I don't know about trusting them as readers, but for burning they do quite nicely

Your green up and downs, in the upper field, is your speed of the burn. Looks like you may have had buffer underrun occurring. If you multi task, on a single Hard drive system, this will happen. You need another Hard drive, so you can multi task with ease. Store Dvd files and what not on that spare drive. You'll find that your Operating system hard drive will run better that way too.

As for the Pi E...You need not worry about that score, unless it's REALLY high. And I'm talking upwards of the hundreds of errors. I've had well over 1,000 and it still played ok. Really does depend on the burner, and reader though.

 

anybody try any of these Yet?
http://www.meritline.com/ritek-ridata-pro-series-8x-dvd-r-shiny-thermal-hub-printable---p-18375.aspx

 

I'm afraid Ritek left a bad taste in my mouth...

 

I haven't but they look good and the best Ritek discs I've used are the 8x DVD+R Office Max discs.

I'll be curious to see your results on those if you choose to buy them.

 

I'll sure to let you know greensman waiting on free shipping first,I'm curious to see how there work out and how well they burn, gonna try 100pk along side some Verb's dvd-r 8X Shiny Silver 100pk also
http://www.meritline.com/verbatim-8x-dvd-r-silver---p-18319.aspx
they got the 8x +r Shiny Silver 100pk Verb's (mcc 003) at micro center for $19.99 that me and Rob get all the time but it's a luck of a draw,I've had and so has Rob pick up a 100pk where they spiked at 0.5 high on the PIE at the same spot all the time don't matter burn speed or which burner. I use,I still got about 40 of those left.I hav'en used at all sense.I bought a new pack of 100

 

Here's a burn on my oldest optiarc, and my decent batch of Verbatims. Don't have many of these discs left
7200A 1Z2 F/W 12X

 

And now here is one grabbed from the center of the 100 cake package. I sure hope the other package is even slightly better LOL!
12X iHAS424(7241S) via imgburn.

 

think im gonna go with this to get a true liteon..lol

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827249051

i know pricey but its the name that cost. plust its a true liteon.

take that back guess its not a litey, the firmware for it is 1.03bt... yep same as the 7240s... guess thats out...

i guess ther just aint no LH-20A1s/h's for sale anymore? i cant find them if they are. ebay has some used ones but them fools want $45+ for 1..lol

 

Rob buy a Pioneer ODD

 

im not really wanting it to burn with, but to scan. thats whay im looking for a LH-20A1S...

edit
could someone tell me whats the difference in the
ihas124
ihas224
ihas324
ihas424

i know the 224and 424 are lightscribe as the 124 and 324 are not.
just from look at their specifications the 324 and 424 dont burn DL disc???

this is from the 324
Brand LITE-ON
Type DVD Burner
Model iHAS-324-98
Performance
DVD-ROM Access Time 160ms
CD-ROM Access Time 140ms
Cache 2MB
WRITE Speed
DVD+R 24X
DVD+RW 8X
DVD-R 24X
DVD-RW 6X
CD-R 48X
CD-RW 32X
DVD-RAM 12X

this the 124
Brand LITE-ON
Type DVD Burner
Model iHAS124-04
Performance
DVD-ROM Access Time 160ms
CD-ROM Access Time 140ms
Cache 2MB
WRITE Speed
DVD+R 24X
DVD+RW 8X
DVD-R 24X
DVD-RW 6X
CD-R 48X
CD-RW 32X
DVD+R DL 8X
DVD-RAM 12X

 

U looking on the net or in your mailbox?? ROFL.

 

The following site appears to have at least 2 Not sure what the difference is between 12 and 15 though...
http://www.akromo.com/ProductView.asp?ItemID=B1758421
http://www.akromo.com/ProductView.asp?ItemID=B1817558
Not sure how trustworthy the site is. Rob, google is awesome. Let it do the searching for you. Or even amazon?
http://www.google.com/products
Their product search is how I cam across those and more

 

i spent over a hour yesterday looking for them ive found some but at $40+ they can keep them

 

My LH-20A1H cost me 60+$. I don't regret that purchase It's still my most trusted burner/reader. I generally only use it for reading. Its shown itself to be better than the sata counterpart. Though that could be due to multiple factors...

 

Well, my Optiarc AD-7220s bought the farm yesterday. It's identifying DVDs as re-writable's and try's to format them. It locks up the drive completely. it's not the Sata cable as I switched them and the drive still doesn't work. Something in the chip went south! It started out by not allowing me to burn anything faster than 8x, and finally quit completely yesterday! It will play DVDs and burn CDs, but it won't burn a DVD! Time for an RMA! LOL!! I've never had to deal with Optiarc before, so wish me luck!

Russ

 

Pretty sure it's Retail vs. OEM (bulk). At LESS than $31 it's a pretty good price for dat bulk drive.


FFFFFFFFFFF ME!!!! anyone check the "shipping" with that company??? ROFL.



That is the cheapest shipping available to my house!!! DANG!!!!

 

LOL!!! There shipping shows 150.00$ for GROUND shipping. That can't be right...