Posted by def456 on 08/26/07 00:22

<DaveJohnson12@nomail.> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 16:43:08 -0500, "def456" <def456@none.none> wrote:
>
>>"Linea Recta" <mccm.vos@abc.invalid> wrote in message
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>>>> On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:58:33 +0200, "Linea Recta"
>>>> <mccm.vos@abc.invalid>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> ><DaveJohnson12@nomail.> schreef in bericht
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>>>> >> On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:17:19 GMT, nick <nick@NOSPAM.ORG> wrote:
>>>> >>
>>>> >> >BigJim wrote:
>>>> >> >> I like NEC but what ever you order make sure you get what your
>>> system
>>>> >uses,
>>>> >> >> either sata or IDE.
>>>> >> >
>>>> >> >Over the past few years I have had trouble reading some discs with
>>>> >> >NEC
>>>> >> >drives and have gradually replaced them all with Lite-On, which
>>>> >> >seem
>>>> >> >to read anything.
>>>> >> >
>>>> >> >nick
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Thanks, I'll probably go with Light On I guess or maybe an LG though
>>>> >> I
>>>> >haven't
>>>> >> had much success with Korean (LG) products. They tend to be not as
>>>> >> good
>>> as
>>>> >> products from Japanese companies from what I've seen.
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >I have an LG multiburber in the PC and I have an LG standalone HDD/DVD
>>>> >recorder. Both of them work fine here.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks. I decided on an LG. The reviews from people who bought DVD
>>>> burners
>>> were
>>>> a little better than the reviews for Lite On.
>>>
>>>
>>> I wish you all the best with the new device. I think as a whole LG is
>>> great
>>> value for the money.
>>> BTW, I have done some firmware updates already (on both).
>>
>>I have both a Lite-On and LG installed as master/slave, and haven't had
>>any
>>problems ripping/burning with either... The Lite-On is faster for
>>ripping/verifying. LG has a better reputation for burning, but it's slower
>>for ripping/verifying out of the box. You can make it faster for
>>ripping/verifying if you want to risk a speed increase MCSE patch at
>>http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=133858
>>I did it for mine and it's now about as fast as the Lite-On. I must flip a
>>coin to decide which one to use!?
>
> Do the LG's all have riplock and only rip at something like 2x or are they
> just
> somewhat slower than the Lite On? The one I got is the GSA-H44LK BK LS
> 18x.
> I didn't see any H44's on the list at cdfreaks. Thank you.

The LG's all have riplock, as far as I know, but I'm not an expert. I have a
new GSA-H55N which was slower out of the box than my GSA-4167B which I
bought about 18 months ago. So it looks like they're getting slower and
slower, but not as slow as 2x in my experience. A rule of thumb might be
that riplock doubles or triples the time needed to rip/verify a disc. For
example when verifying a single layer 16x Taiyo Yuden disc after burning a
movie with ImgBurn, the original H55N got up to about 6x speed maximum,
while after the MCSE patch it got up to about 15x speed maximum. That's
typical of rips too, they generally go about twice or three times as fast.

There have been recent updates to MCSE and your H44L is on the list at
http://ala42.cdfreaks.com/MCSE/. You can also download the latest MCSE,
unzip, and look at the changelog. It looks like the H44 was added in April
2007, maybe with subsequent improvements. You might start reading the big
long MCSE thread at about...
http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=133858&page=27&pp=25
It's pretty easy if you don't have to go through a .bin file stage, like I
did with the H55N!? But please note there's a risk, so you have to be sure
and do it right, or it could kill the drive.

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