Whats The Best?

[Me.]

I'm thinking of buying a new DVD-RW drive and I have about £100 to spend. I was wondering what, one I should get? as I want it to be able to backup my growing collection of Games which seem to have either protected with SafeDisc v3.x and SecuRom Securom v4.x/5.x the majority of the time.

I was think ing along the lines of a Liteon or maybe a Asus drive, as I have heard that these drives have a good reputation of being able to backup these protections.

Any input would be greatly appreciated!

[Luci]

there isn't "what the best is " thing man.few protections are hardware dependent.safedisc and securom can be bucked up easily with whatever you hae

[Me.]

SafeDisc and SecuRom are hardware dependent! I cannot back up the latest with my drives which are:

Toshiba 1502 DVD-ROM
Pioneer DVR-106 DVD-RW

That's why i'm asking, as you cannot back them up with any drive, you have to have the right drive(s) to do it.

[Luci]

oh are they?well my nec 2500A does so does my cd-r(plextor)and so does even a sony dvd-rom i have.maybe i'm lucky.

what program do you use?

[Me.]

CloneCD mostly, but I have used Alcohol 120% aswell a few times. I find that CloneCD usually does the trick.

[Me.]

Could you do me a favour and have a look at this: http://fileforums.com/showthread.php?t=62870 Thanks!!

[Luci]

well clonecd had vd as you said.clonecd is crap use alcohol man.onlu latest securom is hardware dependent but most drives work.clone cd has a profile called protected games right?crap.use alcohol 120%(it's the best)or download alcoholer and put the protection on and let clonecd do the rest.in safedisc games you get an error at the beginning right?

[Me.]

Yeah they are read errors, alot of them at the start so it takes a while for it to read the disc at first, but as soon as it passes that, everything goes at the normal speed.

[Luci]

just download alcoholer and do what i told you.you'll save much time.i suggest you use alcohol 120% though

[Me.]

I will give it a go, but I don't think it'll work, because as I said these games are hardware reliant, and I wouldn't get a propper backup 1:1.

I'll let you know how I get on though. Thanks for your input!

[APhool]

What hurts Plextor is their service and support policies.

Plextor's answer to a simple eject button issue is to send the unit back and using their upgrade warranty program, buy a refurb unit of my choice.

On the surface that doesn't seem like a bad deal. However, I pay shipping both ways and still get a refurb unit for only $20 US less than what a new retail product would cost. So factor in the shipping charges and their replacement would cost me just as much as a new retail package!

Plextor needs to model their replacement program after ABit and Western Digital. Western Digital warranties their hard drives for up to 3 years. ABit still replaces their P2 and P3 motherboards, no charge!

As long as you don't have any problems with the Plextor then it is a good drive. From now on I will go with the Liteon drives.