Anyone got recommendations for a disk drive optical drive that combines good performance with a good price? I have absolutely no idea about this topic. It's for a desktop
Best Optical Drive value
blighst on 15/11/2013 - 20:44
Last edited 15/11/2013 - 21:44
Last edited 15/11/2013 - 21:44
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@ PissLUR
I have absolutely no idea about this topic
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Disk drive for what? Laptop? Desktop?
How much storage is required?
The performance of HDD's are fairly similar.. no point comparing a 7200rpm drive against another, as the differences are fairly minute. When you throw in an SSD into the mix, all conventional HDD's are slow!
If you still want a run-down of the best drives to get try
http://www.hardware-revolution.com/best-ssd-best-hard-drive-…Sorry forgot to mention :S . Going into a desktop
And when I say disk drive I actually mean optical drive
If you're looking at 3.5" drives, i.e. a HDD for a desktop, 3TB is the best value as it will be the cheapest per TB.
As Scrimshaw said, there's no point comparing hard drives, even the performance differences between a 5400RPM and 7200RPM drive isn't that significant when all HDDs are used for these days are mainly mass storage.
There are RUMOURS that 5400RPM drives are more durable than 7200RPM drives, but that's just a rumour. I would say that any hard drive on the market is equally reliable. There will be people who tell you that WD > Seagate or that Hitachi is bad or Toshiba is bad or that they've always had bad Seagate drives…etc.
That's all lottery and there aren't any hard statistics to show that any HDD manufacturer is more reliable…etc.
My advice in a nutshell, unless you are running something mission critical, just go for the cheapest you can find.
EDIT - Sorry optical drive, any will do, just go to MSY and pick up a DVD RW for $20 or so.
They're all the same and they're all around the same price. Just go for the Samsung one for $18 at MSY. http://www.msy.com.au/Parts/PARTS.pdf
There are three options:
DVD Burner. $16-$20, all pretty much the same.
Combo Drive. As above but can read Blu Ray $55
Blu Ray Burner. Not sure why anyone would want this.
Looks like soon those optical drives would go the way of floppy drives. Currently, the functionality of optical discs:
- For software distribution — replaced by app stores or Steam.
- For sharing or moving files around — replaced by USB drives
- For archiving — replaced by the cloud storage
- For playing videos — maybe with Blu-Ray, but sooner or later we'll all be watching streaming movies.
For now these are all the same. Get a combo drive that can read blu-ray because that's about the only thing I use my optical drive for.
But you're under the assumption that everyone has access to fast internet with lots of storage. It might be the case for people on Ozbargain, but not every place in the world is like that. Downloading a 7GB game is not possible for every single computer user.
For technical people this is completely true, but a lot of people still use (for example) burnt CDDA CDs that they pass around.
As for Blu Ray I'm really annoyed that it isn't possible to just buy the blu ray content without the disc.
Yeah I'm on 50GB Wi-Fi at home and prefer to use disks where possible.
Yes you guys are right. I guess instead of "currently", optical drives would eventually be replaced in 5-10 years time, provided that NBN in this country can actually reach out to the majority of its population.
NBN is crap now that the libs won.
I just wish BD-R disk were cheaper like dvd-r disk..
Why? I can't think of any good use for blu ray r.
Large storage of stuff.
For storage use USB mass storage. Blu Ray is not that large and is no good for long term storage (optical media degrades).
hard disk/usb portable hdd degrade/fail as well
I want BD-R to be cheap as dvd-r
so I can archive alot of my stuff on my hdd..On my computer, you can only have limited no. of sata ports for internal hdd and optical drive..and it is fill up completely..
if u record hdtv etc, you can just burn it off.
If the media fails, it is not too big of a concern.Any data that is important, you can burn on many BD-R disk and have local copy on the hdd/network share etc..
Also it means you can have multiple type of backups
And no accidental deletes/corrupt partition can occur on bd-r
And most BD-R have good dye protection that should last quite along time, and you make multiple backups before they degrade..
So that's why BD-R still good to have, but it is still too expensive compared to hdd $/gb value
I completely disagree. Optical media just shouldn't be used as an archiving or storage medium any longer because they are expensive, unreliable, slow and just not suited for the purpose.
You can have up to 10 SATA ports with the right motherboard, or alternatively, buy a RAID card.
If you want to protect your data, you can use RAID and back it up to another hard drive and for absolutely crucial data, backup to offsite. This can all be automated, there's no place for optical media to fit in any more.
As said, the point is to allow you have more than one method to archive the files…
Some items also you want to archive, and not leave it on hdd forever, e.g HDTV records, camcorder recordings etc..
Also you can pass around many copys of camcorder Full HD recordings to frenz or family..on BD-R
would do that with your hdd ?10 sata port, most motherboards give about 6 to 8,
1 or 2 would be use for optical drive…
The motherboards u say has 10 sata port are rare, and probably very expensive…Copy to offsite? Not with a current isp speed, also we would need to pay on going cost…
RAID etc, would mean needing a dedicated NAS, new server etc,, which would mean more power cost…
You are not getting the point!!!
There are certain cases where it is still preferable to have BD-R…You might not see a point for optical disks, but there are certain ppl who do!!
I think that software distribution, i.e. buying software, is the only real case where DVDs are actually still useful. But in that regard, the prices of flash NAND, and hence USB flash drives, have been falling so much that in the near future, we can expect mass-produced 4GB USB drives to be as cheap as a DVD. When that happens, DVDs will well and truly be extinct.
For sharing, yeah, USB drives are just so much easier and faster, there's no use for DVDs any more. Plus, if you're sharing or moving, you really want to be able to reuse the media, right?
Archiving - same deal, you're almost pretty much better off just getting a large hard drive. A 3TB hard drive is around $125 now. So around 4c/GB. That's almost as cheap /GB as a DVD and it's just easier, not to mention probably more reliable too.
Pioneer have traditionally been the best manufacturers of DVD and Blu-Ray drives.
I think the Pioneer DVD Player which was bought around 2002/2003…is still working in my house after all this time, whereas the Samsung DVD Burner stopped playing DVDs quite soon after it was bought. So yeah, I think you're right.
Optical Drives are old technology on the way out. My suggestion is to get an External USB DVD Burner (or Blu-Ray if you need that for some exotic reason) and this will be the last Optical Drive that you'll ever need.
2.5 inch?
3.5 inch?
internal/external?
what would you use it for?