Best SATA DVD Burners

Drives to Create DVDs and CDs on Desktops With the SATA Interface

Sony and NEC merged their optical divisions together to form the new Sony Optiarc company. Since this time, they have been producing some solid performing drives at relatively low costs. The Optiarc AD-7241S brings the 24x DVD recording speeds that give it some of the fastest recording speeds available. It is no slouch when it comes to CD media either with a 48x recording and playback speed for CD-R. If there is any real weakness in this drive, it is the rewritable speeds but they are still respectable. The drive also features LightScribe media for burning labels directly to compatible media.

Most of the DVD burners sold on the market today are either bare drive or OEM. This means that they only come with the drive and no software, cables or installation hardware. If you require these items when you buy the drive, then the LG HD22LS40 is the kit to get. In addition to the new drive with its 22x recording speeds, the kit includes instructions, screws, SATA cable, SATA power adapter cable,software and a white colored replacement faceplate. Performance is strong for most tasks but does lag it slightly behind the newer 24x drives.. The drive does support burning labels directly to LightScribe compatible media as well.

Double layered DVD media allows for roughly double the storage of traditional DVD media. The problem is that the recording of these discs tends to be much slower. If you are looking for a drive that can record to the DVD+R DL or DVD-R DL media quickly, then the LG HD22NS40R is the drive of choice. It features 16x and 12x recording speeds respectively for the two media types. If you need to record to traditional single layered DVD media, it features the 22x recording speed.

Lightscribe is the most popular of the two different directly labeling systems on burners. With performance between the various drives so close these days, those looking to burn labels directly to LightScribe media are best served by going with a drive from the company that primarily backed the format, HP. The HP 1270i offers some solid performance with 24x recording speeds for both DVD+R and DVD-R formats. CD formats are also quite speedy with 48x recording and playback speeds for CD-R and 32x for CD-RW.

Most people who burn data to CDs and DVDs consider them disposable because they are so inexpensive. The problem is that the data once recorded to the media isn't easy to erase, especially with the one time recordable media. Lite-ON has developed a system called SmartErase that allows the drive to make a single use recordable disc become unreadable. So, if data security is highly important to you, the iHAS424 drive is certainly the one to consider. The drive has good performance to with its 24x DVD+/-R recording speeds. It also supports burning to LightScribe compatible media.