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Originally Posted by memberix  So we all need to buy the worst reader on the market. If the disc is readable in that it will be readable everywhere. |
For the pickiest / most paranoid of us out there, who want only the absolute top of the crop, that's the idea. Not necessary for everyone, though: who needs the absolute best possible compatibility these days? Also a
really bad reader would give too many false positives. So not really the worst, but very fussy reader, yeah.
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The worst readers I presume are the NEC/Optiarc drives, right?
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Nope. That's a reputation owned in 2006 and may well be, finally, as sound as a hoax. NEC drives from the 3550/4550 line are indeed good companions for TRTs in my book (not very good readers, but not terrible ones either).
3500, 3540 and 3520 are actually good readers. I know that the ones from the 7200 line are excellent readers. In-between NEC drives (7100 line for example) I don't know, we'd have to ask
Dee-27. But the thing is, it's not a clear cut with NEC, much less than the usual rumours anyway.
My pickiest drive here is a Lite-On 16P1S DVD-ROM. I've heard some ASUS drives are terrible readers.