DVD Burner Questions

[Ba745]

I am planning on purchasing a new internal DVD burner soon, and I was wondering approximately how many DVDs it will be able to burn before it poops out. 50? 100? Any suggestions as to what brand and specifications would be good would be appreciated.

 

[zephead]

stick to good brands, such as LG, plextor, and asus. a decent burner should last far more than 100 DVDs. i would reccomend a SATA model, provided that you do have a SATA controller w/a free port.

 

[SNGX1275]

From: https://www.techspot.com/vb/showthread.php?t=61634

Most DVD Burners I've seen have a life cycle of 60,000 to 100,000 POH (Power on Hours).

Now that by itself is somewhat worthless because thats just the drive being on but not necessarly doing anything. But I have seen cited a couple places that the POH is cut to 20% with reads, and down to 2% with writes.

So...
12,000 to 20,000 Hours (1.36-2.28 Years) of reading.
1200-2000 Hours (50-83 days) of burning.

If you assume 7 minutes per burn (rough estimate for 16x on a 4.3GB disk) thats 10,285 to 17,143 disks.


Having said all that, I've had 3 die on me in the last 2 years.

Basically buy what you want, and hope you can RMA it when it dies.