A good DVDR Drive

[shane ward]

Right, I know I have come to the right place to ask this

Anyone know of a good DVD Writer that will LAST YEARS, WRITE to any form of DVD/CDR Media without problems and will not get dusty and messed up inside... Something good.

I thought I had a good DVD Drive, Plextor, but after about 2 years it has gone funny on me... grrrrrr

Ho, and a good price too... prefbly in the UK

Shane

[CmptrWz]

I don't know what to recommend in the UK, several of the brands I use I have been told by others aren't avail in the UK.

But I do know that the "dusty" part is usually not the drive, but the computer. If the only place your computer can pull air in is the optical drives they will get dusty. If you have more air being forced in to your computer then forced out chances are your drives will stay cleaner (although still not a guarantee).

[OvermindDL1]

I have been using the same cheap one for many years now, works like a charm, whenever I do use it that is, maybe once a year.
Lite-On brand I think it is.  They are sold locally here for $50 anyway, so not like it sets you back any.

On another note, I *HATE* it when games require a disk to be in a drive, that is the whole reason I use a virtual drive.
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[TheJamsh]

i have an external HP drive that has worked perfectly for over a year. we originally used it to replace the busted drive on a sony vaio laptop. (i HATE sony as of that point)

'HP dvd840' is the device type. oh and by the way, apparently its not supposed to work with vista, but i got it too work just fine.

rule of the thumb in my opinion? used an external disc drive, for two reasons, one they are p!55 easy to replace shoyuld they go busted as any mug can do it, and two, they seem to last longer than cheap built-in drives.