coolT said: JimboUS said: I...Updated firmware does not exist and is very picky with disks and Win 7.
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Jimbo, the link to the thread on digital-digest(great forum by the way)is mainly about bricking your drive trying to update firmware. How did you conclude this was not a good burner? This is why (some Newegg reviews): "Cons: Keep failing while reading DVD and when burning a batch out 4 DVD burn 1 failed in the second batch if burned 1 out 2, with another failed in the second batch. With my last DVD burner I was able to burn 10 DVDs back to back with no problem at all." "Cons: This thing failes to burn all the disk i've burned so far. i had old samsung drive which was with me for over 6 years now and think it was it's life or my old PC but it was burning at 1x speed for everything. so i decided to get this one due to good reviews, but this thing sucks, only burned two DVD+RW in back up other than that it sucks. i tried to upgread the firmware, no model number on their website. i suppose i'll get samsung once again. Fails on CD's burning is that when i burn like under 650MB worth of data(typically security back up videos) it burns 7%in first second and than slowly burns rest of data. Will not let me burn 24x CD-RW at anyspeed but 16x, will not let me burn anyother dvd at lower speed and won't burn dvd ISO files at all askes me that i can only burn it on CDs eventhough they are 7GB+" I experienced similar problems with various brands disks, turning out lots of coasters.
I bought 6 of them and they are all disapointing drives.
Used with Win7 64 bit and 32 bit. Upon failure to burn Win7 gives a message to update the drive's firmware.
BUT there is no firmware to update to for this specific drive anywhere. I have used Samsungs and have never had this problem of SO MANY coasters. That's why I recommended Samsungs, and they have easy to update firmware. | 