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DVD burner Buying Help

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Hey fellow Star Wars fans.

I am looking to purchase an external DVD burner this Christmas.
I've been looking around and honestly, don't quite know enough to make a very informed decision.

Does anybody have any advice or tips on what to choose? I want something external from the hard drive itself, and preferably manufactured by Sony since I know their quality.
Thanks for your help.

I know I’ve made some very poor decisions recently.

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The LG Super Multi Drive is available both internal and external, and is firmware upgradeable to dual layer burning.

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I'd recommend getting an internal IDE drive, then getting an firewire enclosure for it. It would give you the ultimate flexibility to either make it internal or external. Of course, this is all that many of the externals are anyway. You may also want to do the same with a hard drive so you can store your most common burns if you become a seeder of any sort. I've found that my second IDE channel is slow as molasses, so I do all my burns from a firewire-enclosed IDE drive to the internal IDE on my primary channel. I think I've had maybe one buffer underrun, and that was due to taxing my CPU on other processes at the same time I was burning.

I do not have a dual-layer (DL) burner (yet), but I'd recommend one, given that they're pretty inexpensive and the price of DL media is only dropping. In a year you'll be glad you did this.
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I just got my hands on an NEC ND3500a external dvd writer - does + and - format, dual-layer, and is 16speed.

Got it at a decent price from ebay.

Have only used it so far writing in -r format, but no hassles yet!


http://www.nec.co.uk/DVD_RW_ND3500.aspx

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I second ADM's recommendation - I recently bought an NEC ND3500a internal drive with an external firewire enclosure, and it works great.
edit: Part of the reason I bought an internal is because I'm planning on building a new system in the next few months, so I wanted something I could put into that system when it was time to build it.
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So, that's the DVD burner you own, ADigitalMan? I can already see that it rocks, based off of the DVD I got in the mail today. heh.

What exactly are the benefits of having an internal drive versus an external?

And how do you install them into the physical hard drive?

(Just making sure I have everything down before buying)

I know I’ve made some very poor decisions recently.