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Mark Thomas Knapp. Mark Knapp has been a technology feature writer since Twitter LinkedIn. Updated on March 18, Tweet Share Email. The Rundown. Best Overall:. Best Budget:. Runner-Up, Best Budget:. Measures 0. Most Compact:. Plextor makes the best DVD writers available. They sell at a premium, but we consider their small additional cost worth paying for their superior reliability and the high quality of the discs they write.
The Plextor PXA, their flagship model, is superb. It has every imaginable feature, top-notch performance, and is built like a tank. The Plextor PXA, their economy model, has a smaller buffer and fewer features, but is built to Plextor's usual high standards. In the decade or more that we've been using and abusing Plextor drives, we've had only one Plextor die on us.
And that one didn't die of natural causes; it was murdered. Robert rammed his knee into the drive tray while it was extended, ripping it out of the drive. Every disc from first to last was perfect. The drive wasn't even breathing hard.
If you're on a tight budget, a Plextor model may be out of your price range. Unless you're counting pennies, we strongly recommend choosing a DVD writer rather than a less capable optical drive. Other than the SATA issue, you needn't worry about compatibility.
Modern DVD writers function properly even in older systems. Fix Your Stuff Community Store. Optical Drive Types. Edit Options History. Optical Drive Types Learn about the different types of optical drives. Author: Sam Goldheart and one other contributor. CD-ROM drive. CD-RW drive. DVD writer. DVD writable formats supported. Strictly Necessary Cookie should be enabled at all times so that we can save your preferences for cookie settings. If you disable this cookie, we will not be able to save your preferences.
This means that every time you visit this website you will need to enable or disable cookies again. Internal optical drive for a computer Function An optical drive uses a laser or visible light to read or write to optical discs such as DVDs, Blu-Ray, and CDs from your computer. Selection Considerations You will first want to decide if you require an optical drive at all for your PC build. R — Recordable A disk that can be written to once then read many times.
RW — ReWritable A disk that be written to, read, erased and rewritten multiple times over 1, RE — Recordable Erasable Exclusive to Blu-ray this disc can be written, erased and re-recorded multiple times.
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