Posted by Bazza on 04/28/06 05:09

<SNIP ... see thread for details>

> >
> >Sony don't use liteon drives. They switched to lg.
> >
> >At work we bought in a fair few 110 pioneer drives and have had
> >nothing but problems with them. We tried the 111 drives too and they
> >do not handle faster medi ato well. The sony drives are very good.
> >We have 5 tower cases with sony drives and not a single failure.
> >Many other mates we know use lg or sony over pioneer.
> >
> >You got to be nuts not knowing how good these sonys are:)
>
> Actually the Sonys are mostly made by BenQ, which is why they're so
> good.. <g>
>

Just a note BENQ sold their optical drive business to LiteOn several
weeks ago. The BENQ 1650 is likely to be the last true BENQ drive.

http://www.benq.com/press/news.cfm?id=1331&cat=2&year=2006

Not to mention that BENQ *lost* NT$4.99 BILLION during the 1st
3 months of 2006 ... no idea how much that is in US dollars.

http://www.benq.com/press/news.cfm?id=1333&cat=0&year=2006

Barry...

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