For my needs the PIONEER is a better choice I think, maybe that is the point I should have made previously that for me the LG is not ass good...Partially bad reader, as the NEC is, good writing quality on some media, while the NEC is excellent writer on all media...Back to my point what I need is a good all round writer with wide media compatibility as it is allot of times extremely hard to...
Decided upon the LGGSA-4120B, as it is pretty speedy on the old read/write stats, is Dual-Format and is Dual-Layer compatible, and so 'future-proofed' for a shortwhile...I'm not a 'newbie' to backing up xbox games, as I've been using a friend's PC & burner, fairly often for this purpose...Oh and the other thing, the site I got the drive from listed...
i thought of buying this one some months ago, but it seems to produce poor quality with some rewritables...anyway i would recommend the 'next generation' of dvd burners with 16x dvd+/-r and 4x dual layer (i ordered nec nd-3500a...at least single layer should work fine with any mainstream dvd burner...
As far as I can tell, no review site has received a Plextor 712a...Also, LG has been doing pretty good in C't's testing lately too, which lends a lot of credibility to the newer 4120B...So far, the only thing that I believe the Plextor 712a will have over the LG4120B is greater support for DVD+Rs at 12x, and I'm not sure if LG supports P-CAV writing,...
