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Posted: **Mon Oct 18, 2004 10:03 am**

Samsung Black 52X32X52X16 DVD/CD-RW Combo Drive, Model TS-H492A/WBGH, OEM

Is this the best Combo DVD/CDRW Drive? I also want something quiet!

Posted: **Mon Oct 18, 2004 10:58 am**

you have a intel 815 on up chipset on your motherboard?

if so you can go with a SATA combo drive

http://www.neoseeker.com/Hardware/Products/msi_XA52P/

Posted: **Tue Oct 26, 2004 8:54 am**

gate1975mlm wrote:
"Samsung Black 52X32X52X16 DVD/CD-RW Combo Drive, Model TS-H492A/WBGH, OEM
Is this the best Combo DVD/CDRW Drive? I also want something quiet!"

I'm trying to research this drive myself,
and found a review that covers it and 2 other combo drives, here:

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/storag ... undup.html

I'm looking for either a good CDRW burner or a Combo drive, with Mt Rainier support, that's reliable, reasonably quiet, and scores high in the usual tests that are done around here. and at the low to mid level in cost, maybe $30 to $40 or so. Don't really want SATA at this point. I have a Yamaha F1 which I really like and it suits my needs well, but want something for another computer I use.

thoughts?

Posted: **Sat Nov 06, 2004 7:43 pm**

hoxlund wrote:you have a intel 815 on up chipset on your motherboard?

if so you can go with a SATA combo drive

http://www.neoseeker.com/Hardware/Products/msi_XA52P/

Show me one 815-Board with S-ATA

@stix:

Get the LG GCC 4521, it´s not too loud, and I think it´s the best combo you can get these days

Posted: **Sat Nov 06, 2004 10:57 pm**

hoxlund wrote:you have a intel 815 on up chipset on your motherboard?

if so you can go with a SATA combo drive

http://www.neoseeker.com/Hardware/Products/msi_XA52P/

You sure you didn't mean 865, and not 815??

Posted: **Sun Nov 07, 2004 3:51 am**

i probably meant the 865, but i thought i read it right off the box

Posted: **Mon Nov 08, 2004 6:10 am**

Scour wrote:@stix:

Get the LG GCC 4521, it´s not too loud, and I think it´s the best combo you can get these days

Scour,
thanks for responding to the question.
trying to be a good scientist, I have to ask why you consider the LG to be the best combo. Is there data somewhere to back this up, or are you speaking from your own experience?

Posted: **Thu Nov 11, 2004 7:16 pm**

Hello stix!

I didn´t have/had the 4521, but I had the 4480. It was not the fastest DVD-Reader, but it was a very good cd-writer with high quality burns. I didn´t think/read that the 4521 is not so good as the 4480.

A friend have the MSI X48-Combo. If you read CD´s it´s a good drive, for burning CD´s it´s also good. But he said that the DVD-error-correction is not really good.

With samsung-drives (CD-Burners) I Have bad experiences.

Posted: **Thu Nov 11, 2004 7:35 pm**

Scour,
thank you for saying more about your experience with the LG combo drives, and the others.