DVD-Drives

[Merlin4458]

Recently my DVD Rom decided that it no longer likes DVDs and will only read CDs. So im looking for a decent, reliable and cheap drive (student)

My knowledge on DVD and CD drives is a little worse than awful so i was hoping u could throw me some suggestions on what to get.

My current DVD (broken drive) is a Sony DDU1612 DVD-ROM and im not wanting another as ive heard negative feedback about sony dvd drives since ive had this problem

Thanks in advance

[k0nigen]

Nec

[grimpy]

pioneer 109.

[Firelord]

I've been Asus DVD Rom drives recently and they are cheap, reliable and most importantly quiet! They also rip DVDs at about 14x using DVD Decrypter which is nice

Bout £16 from scan ohhh and they are short in length too which makes them neater as it hides the cabling

[Gipo]

he meant dvd-rom as in readers I think - liteon ones are cheap, in fact most dvd drives are around 15 quid nowadays

[Mblaster]

I have always just bought any old cheap CD/DVD ROM and never had a problem with them The only ones I have had fail are from pre-built machines.

[Proplus]

The only ones I have had fail are from pre-built machines.

I second that.

Never had any trouble from Lite-On ones, cheap and cheerful.

[badass]

Get a cleaning CD. Stick it in. Your drive will work again

[Furton]

Just don't get a Sony drive, really poor drives, noisy slow, and un-reliable.

Pioneer drives are always good.