Plextor release new PX-820A/SA drives

[Richard Dower]

Yet again Plextor continues to rebage NEC/Optaric drives, and double the price tag

http://club.cdfreaks.com/f43/new-dri...-820sa-245262/

http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applicatio...?EdpNo=3832388

[Brother Esau]

Yet again Plextor continues to rebage NEC/Optaric drives, and double the price tag

http://club.cdfreaks.com/f43/new-dri...-820sa-245262/

http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applicatio...?EdpNo=3832388

Sorry I won't buy Plextor anymore my 750A which cost me $80.00 stopped ejecting about 3 months ago and had only bought it less then 2 years ago when that went down. Not worth the money IMO if its not a true Plextor and is prone to failure just as much as a $23.00 - $30.00 Drive is.

[Richard Dower]

My 716SA works great after 2 years...but i agree with you, they used my make excellent drives but at a huge price tag. With stiff competition and cheap drives they lost the high end consumer as the cheaper drives worked just as well.

[zanzabar]

are thees real plextor or rebadges like the last ones that they put out

[iTravis]

I dun get it, why people still spend like 80-100 for a DVD Burner while they can get one for $20-$30 on the egg? Is there a big difference in performance or anything?

[Brother Esau]

The Assumption is By Plextor and you get the Best that lasts....Not the Case anymore!

[metachronos]

$90 for some plain IDE drive? Eat and die plextor

[STEvil]

cant say I ever bought anything plexor and have had very few drives ever fail in the time period I owned them either.

[Strafe]

Plextor hasn't been relevant for quite a while. Move on.

[Shintai]

716SA here. And it will be my last optical ever. Opticals=dead.

[generics_user]

716SA here. And it will be my last optical ever. Opticals=dead.

and why do you think so?

tbh your points are getting more and more pointless, why do you think that opticals are going to die? they'll be here forever because they are much cheaper than anything else

[rado992]

Well,Shintai may have a point there...but optical drives/storage definately won't die until USB flash drives become dirt cheap..but hell..they already ARE dirt cheap! After all,floppy drives did die,didn't they same with optical drives(and,for that matter,HDDs may as well pretty soon be replaced by SSDs,but not until prices drop ).When people begin to prefer using a 4 / 8GB USB drive for data storage instead of DVDs,disks will only be used for data backup of some form...Heck! even some the new DVD players/Home theater systems support USB!!.....But that was all offtopic..

And now seriously...spending so much on relabeled IDE drives...come on! I only bought mu cheapo Asus DRW-2014L1T SATA DVD drive because of the 200+ disks i already have...pretty much does the job brilliantly. But personally, I'm already using USB Flash...they're just sooo much better for everyday use.(don't know if anyone would carry a DVD disk in his pocket )

[Shintai]

and why do you think so?

tbh your points are getting more and more pointless, why do you think that opticals are going to die? they'll be here forever because they are much cheaper than anything else

Why would I need opticals? I can install my OS via USB. I can download games, download movies and applications. Backup remotely aswell as to USB.

Opticals are more expensive than to download on the internet.

Why is it again I need opticals? To buy Sony Bluray movies?

[PowerSlide]

no thanks

my cheap LG burner worked flawlessly for 1 year++ if it died just buy a new one

[STaRGaZeR]

and why do you think so?

tbh your points are getting more and more pointless, why do you think that opticals are going to die? they'll be here forever because they are much cheaper than anything else

They're not going to die for the average joe. They're going to die for him and for me too. Ages have passed since my last DVD burn, absolutely no need of it with internet + huge cheap HDDs.

Oh and $80 for an IDE DVD burner... is it made of gold or something?

[MrToad]

With the Samsung F1 1TB drives well under £100 it's actually feasible to avoid backing up to optical all together and and still be able to afford redundancy.

TBH far more convenient than having hundreds of DVDs laying around. I've reached a point where most of the DVDs I've got at home are original films