Aldi External DVD Burner 99 Yoyos??

yop · 25-02-2005 10:00am #1

Lad
What you think of this, seems an excellent price?

http://ireland.aldi.com/special_buys/product_91.html

rubadub · 25-02-2005 10:02am

Very good. Dual layer, 3 year warranty, all cables and nero. Wonder what make it is.

yop · 25-02-2005 10:19am

It is a Gericom, did a google but found nothing about the burner

ADSLUSER · 25-02-2005 10:51am

If anyone buys it, please let us know if it's any good

Kimbot · 25-02-2005 10:55am

gericom is the housing make. the drive looks exactly like my lite-on SWOH-240.

MarVeL · 25-02-2005 11:50am

Anyone know if this would be bootable? Need to get one for the box at home and twould be nice if I could move it around

Capt'n Midnight · 25-02-2005 7:04pm

MarVeL wrote:

Anyone know if this would be bootable? Need to get one for the box at home and twould be nice if I could move it around

Not unless your PC's BIOS has an option to boot from external USB drives.
Or you could take the drive out of the bay and put it into a PC and perhaps then use the case for an normal IDE hdd.

MarVeL · 26-02-2005 10:01pm

Slow day didn't think to check the BIOS

Looks like it should do the job so

Dr. Dre · 27-02-2005 10:55am

Just FYI, you could get an NEC 3520A with a USB2 5.25" external enclosure for €90 delivered from SVP.co.uk.

rubadub · 27-02-2005 5:23pm

Dr. Dre wrote:

Just FYI, you could get an NEC 3520A with a USB2 5.25" external enclosure for €90 delivered from SVP.co.uk.

And you can get a load of dirt cheap blanks and cases there and the post will remain the same.
I got blank dvd-r 8speed for about 27 cent each

yop · 28-02-2005 9:34am

"Just FYI, you could get an NEC 3520A with a USB2 5.25" external enclosure for €90 delivered from SVP.co.uk."

That is a good price alright

BNC · 03-03-2005 9:46am

yop wrote:

Lad
What you think of this, seems an excellent price?

http://ireland.aldi.com/special_buys/product_91.html

Did anyone pick up one of these? If so what make is the drive?

case_sensitive · 03-03-2005 11:41am

svp.co.uk are cheap alright, but the Aldi one is dual-layer, 16x, and has firewire AND USB2.0. Also the svp housings are fugly, this one goes much better with my iMac :-)
I already have a DVD burner in it, but it only does DVD-Rs. I'm tempted..
If I do grab one, I'll let you know how it goes on my PC and my Mac.

Chalk · 03-03-2005 11:43am

depends on the drive in the aldi one.
anyone know what it is?

the nec 3520 is an amzing drive, one of the fastest on the market so id recommend that against an unknow one.

BNC · 03-03-2005 11:56am

Just went out and got one of these, its a Samsung Writemaster Drive. Model TS-H552U

Details here.

yop · 03-03-2005 12:09pm

BNC - you happy with the drive?

BNC · 03-03-2005 1:26pm

yop wrote:

BNC - you happy with the drive?

Haven't had a chance to use the drive yet but am happy with it so far. All the connections are included in the box ie. usb cable firewire cable (even the adapter to convert the firewire to the smaller connection type). Nero Oem Suite 1 is budled with the drive. Its also extremely quiet. Looking at some reviews on this drive it also burns dual layer discs at 5x.

Have to get some media now

Reviewed on this site.

The tax man · 03-03-2005 10:09pm

Picked one up this morning.

Just burnt a full disc of mp3's. Very quick at burning and yes very quite.
The external housing looks like something off a star trek set

I'm sure there's a simple answer+fix to this. Ever since I plugged this unit into my laptop the "on board" dvd burner has gone from "my computer list"
It was my

drive. Now the new one is E: drive.

How can I keep my

drive active the next time I hook the new burner up??
How do I restore my

drive??

Thanks in advance for any words of wisdom.

Zhane · 05-03-2005 1:42am

I got one on Thursday, i successfully managed to copy a dvd to my HD, but havent been able to copy my videos onto the DVD, i think its the blank disk i have cos it wont open(iv had it for ages), cos every other dvd opens

Rokky · 05-03-2005 3:11pm

Remember before you buy Aldis is a FOOD STORE

Chalk · 05-03-2005 3:13pm

Rokky wrote:

Remember before you buy Aldis is a FOOD STORE

-_-

???

Zhane · 05-03-2005 4:53pm

ok, this is really starting to piss me off. Why wont my burner burn onto the disks? iv tried both DVD-R and DVD+R, is it the make of the DVDs? its Mr.DVD. it keeps coming up "your complitation cannot be written on this type of disk" when ever i try to burn it. is anyone else having this trouble? any idea what do i do?

carbsy · 05-03-2005 10:43pm

Sounds like you're trying to burn a DVD9 size to a DVD5... ie check the size of the compilation and make sure it isn't more than 4gb just as a test and then try to burn.It's a dual layer burner so it will allow you to burn more than 4gb, assuming you have DL media.

carbsy · 05-03-2005 10:44pm

Rokky wrote:

Remember before you buy Aldis is a FOOD STORE

hmmm Aldi is the largest computer retailer in Germany! :rolleyes:

boy1er1990 · 05-03-2005 10:58pm

I Think Aldi Are Having A Massive Computer Sale March The 17 I Think Or 18th, Towers,mouses Flat Screen Monitors, All That

Zhane · 06-03-2005 1:00am

carbsy wrote:

Sounds like you're trying to burn a DVD9 size to a DVD5... ie check the size of the compilation and make sure it isn't more than 4gb just as a test and then try to burn.It's a dual layer burner so it will allow you to burn more than 4gb, assuming you have DL media.

im sorry, whats DL media?

06-03-2005 1:12am

Dual layer?

Zhane · 06-03-2005 1:18am

oh right. Sorry im actually better at computers than this, but this thing is driving me insane!. im sorry but your gonna have to walk me threw the whole process. whats DVD9 and 5?

Tony H · 06-03-2005 2:55pm

get dvd shrink and use that to rip it to an iso file and then burn it .
heres the link to download dvd shrink http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/dvd_rippers/dvd_shrink.cfm
and heres a link on how to use it
http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/dvd9_to_dvdr_with_dvd_shrink.cfm

hansov · 08-03-2005 10:07am

Anybody know if Aldi Lucan has any of these left? I know it's a while since last Thursday but maybe......

The tax man · 10-03-2005 12:46am

hansov wrote:

Anybody know if Aldi Lucan has any of these left? I know it's a while since last Thursday but maybe......

Well if the demand was anything like Aldi in Tallaght,I doubt it.
Even old ladies were buying them.(no offence to any old ladies on Boards

)
As for my original problem with my

drive going AWOL it sorted itself out. I don't think my

and E: drive got on at first but they're good friends now.

Zhane, I haven't burnt any DVDs yet but I did find when burning mp3s at max speed to cd-r certain albums just skipped all other the shop. Burnt at x8 and all was fine. Don't know if that was down to the burner or the media used.(memorex cd-r).
I'd agree with the others that said it sounds like you're trying to put a dual layer dvd film onto a normal dvd disc.
If I run into trouble burning DVDs I'll post the details.

jcranl00 · 10-03-2005 8:32am

boy1er1990 wrote:

I Think Aldi Are Having A Massive Computer Sale March The 17 I Think Or 18th, Towers,mouses Flat Screen Monitors, All That

Yeah i saw that in one of their leaflets, anybody know of what the spec of the PC is going to be?
There is nothing on the aldi site as of yet!

Aldi External DVD Burner 99 Yoyos??

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