On Jul 12, 2010, at 6:10 PM, Eric Herbert wrote: > I'm a very FIRM believer in Lite-ON drives as far as reliability, > performance, and longevity are concerned. Every single one of my Mac towers > has been fitted with a Lite-ON of varying ages and I've never had a failure > of the drive, failure to read a disc, or failure to burn a disc. Using > various media of varying degrees of quality I have *NEVER* (knock on wood) > burned a coaster on any machine fitted with a Lite-ON drive. I've got beige > G3's onwards using them and all machines boot natively from the drives with > no sweat whatsoever. Interestingly I don't even have to use PatchBurn on any > of the older OSXes.......burning natively from Apple apps just works. > > Considering the hundreds of PeeCee towers I've built using them, the dozens > of Macs I've upgraded with them, and the number of people I keep track of who > use them, consider this a very strong recommendation for Lite-ON drives. > I've never had a Lite-On drive I'm kinda ready to replace the internal in my PM G5 which is a Pioneer 118L it's only a year old but it seems to not be up to snuff like the 117D drives in my PM G4 MDD I had 2 Samsung's with Lightscribe for a day and that was a huge mistake, at least for me. It didn't even Lightscribe good.
I have 3 Pioneer 116D externals, they seem to work well. I think I will try another brand in the G5 to see if it's the drives or the machine. But I wonder about brands, are some of them the same hardware just different names? I have 2 HP externals that do Lightscribe and they burn CDs and SLs OK but DLs are a crap shoot on those. John Carmonne Yorba Linda USA Sent from my MBP -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
