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HP DVD100i DVD+RW Burner Tested

Posted by timothy on from the hardware-lust-spirals-upward dept.

An anonymous reader writes: "I'm fairly sure this is the first review of a DVD+RW drive. Looks like it fared well in testing. The only downsides to the 100i are slow DAE with audio CD's, lousy manuals, and it can't read DVD-RW (note the dash instead of the plus) discs. Still a tad expensive at 599USD though. Are you reading, Santa?" I want this as a heavy-duty *external* drive :)

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  1. $600? we'll all own one in three years by Frothy+Walrus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    this is great. $600 now means they'll be $150 three years down the line, and they'll be as ubiquitous as CD-RWs are now.

    boy there's gonna be some piracy problems :D

  2. Heavy Duty External? by InnereNacht · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Uhm, why? I always wondered what it was about people and external drives. Do you plan on swapping this across multiple systems? Or do you just want to be "cool" for having an external DVD+RW? From what I've seen, most external CD-like solutions are enormous, unless you get a PCMCIA slimline version, but I don't see any slimline DVD burners coming out any time soon, heh.

    1. Re:Heavy Duty External? by hrieke · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Your second point goes against the reason why you would have a network in place. It might make it easier if you had to transfer between two systems that are not on a network.

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    2. Re:Heavy Duty External? by InnereNacht · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Which is why I asked if he was going to swap across multiple systems.. But you may want to snip USB out of there; burning 5 gigs of data over a 1.2Mbps pipe is most likely not the most efficient way of doing it, hehe.

      SCSI/IEEE1394 would be a ton better, but I just don't see an instance where you'd need a 5 gig storage device to be "portable". Unless you have a LOT of systems that you need to copy huge amounts of data/raw graphics/movies/etc off of... And in that case I'd still think some form of network attached storage would be optimal.

      As for using this for a dedicated backup system, it doesn't seem like it would really fit the build ;/

  3. Apple got there first by Andy_R · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Maybe the poster of this article should look for reviews of Apple's G4 desktop macine, it's been shipping with a Panasonic DVR-103 DVD-RW drive as standard for quite a while now.

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  4. Waiting for standards unification by jpostel · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I waited on the 56k v.90 standard for a while and I can wait on this to get sorted out too. If it were something a little bit cheaper then I would not mind spending the money on this, but since they cost >$500 I will wait.

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  5. Re:DVD Movie bit-by-bit copy? by 1ridium · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I dont know but with the price of blank DVD media right now it would probably be cheaper to just go buy the dvd at the store than to bother burning your own copy.

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  6. Re:how about 40 GB per disk for $100? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    ...It's called I only have 4 IDE ports and wasting them on small hard drives is not what im gonna do... And besides everytime I want to take some data to a friends house im not gonna want to open up my pc to take out my harddrive and then bring it with me - a small dvd would be a hellova lot easier...