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Which DVD-Recordable Drives?

Posted by Hemos on from the which-one-to-get dept.

We've had a couple stories recently about DVD-RW and such. I'm wondering what ones out there people have used, how well they work, what's the support etc etc. I'm also still on my quest to build the ultimate quiet machine, so any comment on the amount of noise the drive generates would be great - I love my Yamaha Drive for burning - but it's a *loud* one.

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  1. I'm a Monster, baby, Creature with the Atom Brain. by JabberWokky · · Score: 4, Funny
    How can you care about something as trivial as DVDs when 50,000 people are dead and our nation is on the brink of war.

    Horrible aren't we? I also took a shower this morning and just now went and made some iced tea.

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    Evan

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  2. heres quite by geekoid · · Score: 4, Funny

    What ever you get, make it an external scsi, and then put the drive 6 meters away,in a closet.

    You said nothing about convinent...;)

    Actually putting it in an external case may make it less audible.

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  3. Re:Dual layer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The discs referred to in the article have been "hacked" with a hole puncher. Users will now be sued by the RIAA, MPAA, and the producer of the disc, because doubling the capacity steals their revenues.

  4. Making Yamaha drives quiet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I had a really noisy Yamaha burner as well. This was a bit of a problem for me as I have wrapped all of his hard-drives (and lined all of his cases) with rubber matting, underclocked all CPU's and removed all fans in an effort to make my "server room" (home office) quiet.
    With all machines totally, truly silent (except for one with a really old hard-drive) the Yamaha sounded like a damn airplane!
    Luckily I had an empty bay underneath so I just took the bottom of the drive housing off, unplugged the original fan and put a much quieter case fan under it, pointing up at the only chip which got hot.
    It still makes some noise while it's actually burning, but at least it's no worse than a normal CD drive. That factory fan is the culprit!