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Mac Pro DVD burner reccomendations - john dough - 12-04-2009
The Sony that shipped with my MacPro is all of the sudden producing tons of coasters. The 2nd drive (Pioneer 116D) has always been slower than the Sony so I am going to change them both out.
Will any IDE DVD burner work? I have no need to burn/view blu ray media, just DL DVDs. Fast is good but reliable is better.
Re: Mac Pro DVD burner reccomendations - jdc - 12-04-2009
yup, anything IDE.
Pioneers are as good as any, newegg often has good deals.
Our lovely forum sponsor has pioneers for $40.
http://eshop.macsales.com/static_pages/Framework.cfm?page=superdrive/sdl_macpro_2009.html
Re: Mac Pro DVD burner reccomendations - DRR - 12-04-2009
Aren't Nehalem Mac Pros SATA only? So you might need a SATA drive depending on which MP.
Re: Mac Pro DVD burner reccomendations - jdc - 12-04-2009
DRR wrote:
Aren't Nehalem Mac Pros SATA only? So you might need a SATA drive depending on which MP.
True.
But since a 116 is IDE and hes already got one in there, he has IDE.
And now I see I linked to SATAs
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/superdrive/Mac_Pro_Xeon
Re: Mac Pro DVD burner reccomendations - DRR - 12-04-2009
jdc wrote:
[quote=DRR]
Aren't Nehalem Mac Pros SATA only? So you might need a SATA drive depending on which MP.
True.
But since a 116 is IDE and hes already got one in there, he has IDE.
And now I see I linked to SATAs
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/superdrive/Mac_Pro_Xeon
Oooh, good point, you win this round.