Guys I just wanted to know if there're extra ways to preserve the life of your internal dvd drive, besides the obvious like using an external burner....does defrag and disk clean up help? is there any other ways u guys know of....thx, appreciate it
Defrag and disk cleanup will do nothing to extend the life of your internal DVD drive, because they have nothing to do with a DVD drive.
Are you referring to a dvd drive or a dvd burner? If referring to a dvd burner drive, about the only way one can extend the longevity of an often used burner is to split the work. Meaning: add another dvd drive, readable is fine; to take the dual load of reading to rip and then burning afterwards. Cutting down the work load on a dvd burner helps out. In essence: read and rip with one, burn with the other.
For now I rip and burn using the just dvd drive in my laptop....Í'm planning to buy an external dvd drive....Do u guys know any affordably great one?......just curious, how long usually your internal dvd drive would last if u use it both for ripping and burning? Thx
Too many variables.. I have an NEC 3550 drive which has done more then 10,000 burns and is still running and quality scanning as good as the day it came out of the bag For an external burner just buy a quality OEM dvd burner by a good maker.. pioneer, benq, NEC etc.. and put it in an external usb housing.. way cheaper than buying a standalone usb burner (which I have suspicions aren't the quality of devices designed to be main run) http://www.starmount.co.uk/productversion/363.html The advantage of having one of these is.. You only pay for it once, and can change and upgrade your burner at will. You can fit a large PC hdd inside and use it as portable storage.
I'm with 7thsinger with the dual drives. I'm setup with dual drives on 2 different machines. The quality writing drive doing the burning and occasionally scanning,and the not so quality drive doing the ripping. It also gives you another drive in case you run into a compatability issue with someone else's backups. It makes for an easier backup process. No more waiting for the reading disc to spit so you can insert the blank. Capability to Rip and Burn on the fly. Very risky,but another option. [bold]Keep the discs clean.[/bold] I've never wore out a dvd-rw drive using the above formula.I have wore out 1 liteon Dvd-Rom drive. External: If I had to go that route, I go along with Varnull and go with an internal drive,placed in an external enclosure. Probably the NEC or Pioneer. Benqs are getting very scarce. Creaky would be the person to refer that setup. The main thing is quality. Quality drive + Quality media = a heck of a lot less headaches.
Thx guys....i'm going to buy a dvd ROM to split the jobs.....I was wondering what specs should I be looking for a great/excellent dvd ROM? And what brand for an affordably great one? My goal to buy it is that so I can read/rip the dvd I want to copy in my dvd drive, and burn it in the external drive...Is dvd ROM is what I should be buying for this? Or is there other "kind" out there that I dont know of that would be more suitable for this type of thing? btw what's the difference between dvd ROM and dvd RAM?....Thx so much for the help...it means a lot for dvd-blind person like me to get the most and not get cheated...
