Best Alternative To Pioneer Drives For Burning Backups? Options

[dupfold]

Hello

My current Pioneer 215 is on its last legs

Now that pioneer has pulled out of making optical PC drives, whats the best alternative drive for burning backs that will work on all[u] the different 360 drives (as the awesome pioneer's did)?

[Ranger72]

I have a PC with a cheap $19 Liteon burner and one with a more expensive Plextor burner and they both burn backups just fine.

Pretty much any burner will work fine for burning backups.

[dupfold]

Thanks but I've found in the past that where one burner would burn games succesfully for using on a xbox 360 with lite-on, same burner, different 360 drive, and games would not work.

I tired many different burners when testing this and only the pioneers would produce burns that would work across the board, on all different xbox 360 drives. This is all to do with which chip-set the burner has.

Interested to hear from those that has a non-pioneer burner that produces successful burns working on all different xbox 360 drives.

This post has been edited by dupfold: Mar 23 2010, 04:12 PM

[Ranger72]

Interested to hear from those that has a non-pioneer burner that produces successful burns working on all different xbox 360 drives.

I do thousands of consoles a year. Do you think I don't test any of them before I ship them back out?

On either of these burners every type of drive has loaded the backups just fine.

If you are so worked up over the Pioneer then get another one. There is by no means anything wrong with them.

[SpyKiIIer]

I've been using a LG Super-Multi external burner for a few years, and have had no problems playing any burned games on any of my xboxs, nor on my friends (10+ xboxs). I also use to use an external HP which worked fine, and have even used my built in laptop burner with no issues.

I think it would be safe to say that any reasonably new (last few years) DL-DVD burner should be able to burn disks that will play in any drive.

[PaganOne]

Just my 2 cents, but in my experience it has always been the media, not the burner which caused issues between consoles.

[Guy Montag]

I agree. I've used burners in laptops, old comps, etc. and they all produced fine burns. However, when I use crap media that's when i've had problems. I only use Verbatim discs and I burn them at 2.4x speed.

[dupfold]

Just my 2 cents, but in my experience it has always been the media, not the burner which caused issues between consoles.

Have to disagree. Of course media plays a part, but drive is very important too as my tested suggests. Same media, burnt with same drive (various non pioneer) but discs will only work on certain 360 drives.

Test again, same media, burnt with pioneer and all burns working on any 360 drive.

I done extensive testing on this a few years back and only the pioneers would produce successful burn after burn that would work on any 360 drive, and that is why I'm keen to continue using them. However due to them pulling out of the UK market it didn't look as if that was going to be possible.

Luck would have it then that I have found some new pioneer drives for sale and got my hands on DVR-A18L. I believe it has a different chip set but will test and hopefully it will be as versatile as the older versions.

This post has been edited by dupfold: Mar 28 2010, 05:19 PM

[battlechaser]

cheap $20 lite-on dl burner here works a charm never had problems with any drive ive done/had