Sony DRU 830A internal burner

• Average user rating: 3.5 stars out of 7 reviews
• My rating: 0 stars

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• 1 stars

  It's not recognizing DVD-R's

  by ErikHockman on August 31, 2007

  Pros: Works fine With DVD+R and factory disks

  Cons: It's supposed to be able to read and write -R format and doesn't.

  Summary: I haven't tried writing disks with this yet, but all the DVD-R's that worked fine in my DRU-530A (now deceased) the drive will not recognize.
  Looking at "My
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  Summary: I haven't tried writing disks with this yet, but all the DVD-R's that worked fine in my DRU-530A (now deceased) the drive will not recognize.
  Looking at "My computer", the drive reads as "DVD Drive (E" until I put in a recorded DVD-R disk. Then the title changes to "CD Drive (E". If I put the same disk in my Mitsubishi DVD drive (D, "My Computer" displays "{Disk Title} (D" as the 830 should, but doesn't.
  
  Interesting how colons appear as smiley faces here.

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• 7 stars

  I have EXACTLY THE SAME thing that Erickhockman has!!

  by monchis34 on January 20, 2010

  Pros: I have been doing all my burnings with this dvd player since around 2005. Has done me good up until now JANUARY 2010. Good thing it comes with NERO program. There are updates for this player and I havent really had any prob. up until now.

  Cons: Wish there was a fix for this problem that I started having of not able to read DVD-R. Also more updates for the drivers. This player doesnt really have much support from SONY.

  Summary: It is reliable for the 1st few years, is fast enough, comes with a good program to install it with for burning and all other stuff but there is not ...

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  Summary: It is reliable for the 1st few years, is fast enough, comes with a good program to install it with for burning and all other stuff but there is not much support for this DVD player. Not much "light" for this player. And this type of problem of not reading DVD-R after it's been reading it before for several years is I think a big technical problem cause now you have to buy another expensive DVD player just like this one was. If we pay that amount of money almost $100 for a DVD player like this, it should come with some kind of support for these types of Critical Technical problems and be able to get our money's worth in technical support at least. I would buy it again ONLY IF it was no more than $30 now NEW, and had the technical support after some people have been having the same trend of technical problem. Ive had other DVD players and they've never had this problem of all of a sudden from one day to the next not reading the formats that they were created to read or burn. They were just slower in speed. which i would take a slower speed anytime than a dvd player that would mess up like that. In conclusion, what I am trying to say is that I was very satisfied with this DVD player for the time that I used it cause it did last me several years but I would only buy it NEW at cheap cause used would mean that it wont take long for me to start getting that same problem I'm having. And the price initially was high where now those players that fast cost half the price of what I got it.

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• 9 stars

  Great drive, fast, reliable and no coasters.

  by oldgeek5344 on August 25, 2007

  Pros: fast, reliable and no coasters

  Cons: None so far,

  Summary: ***********I LOVE THIS SONY DRIVE********** I upgraded from the Sony DRU 510a that I bought when it first came out a couple of years ago. That is one reason I ...

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  Summary: ***********I LOVE THIS SONY DRIVE********** I upgraded from the Sony DRU 510a that I bought when it first came out a couple of years ago. That is one reason I stayed with Sony. The old DRU 510a ran perfectly with out a hiccup the whole time I owned it. I upgraded to the new drive (DRU830A) to pick up some time burning DVD’s and it gives what I wanted. Burning time is just a small fraction of what it used to be. Sony makes some awesome drives.

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• 10 stars

  Thanks for the rip

  by TonyGottlieb on July 3, 2007

  Pros: You used her music

  Cons: She fails to receive any payment for her work

  Summary: As Manager and Music Publisher for the recording artist Cheryl Wheeler I suppose I should be grateful that a CNET editors' review by: Ryan Belonga cited ripping her CD "Different ...

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  Summary: As Manager and Music Publisher for the recording artist Cheryl Wheeler I suppose I should be grateful that a CNET editors' review by: Ryan Belonga cited ripping her CD "Different Stripe," with this Sony DRU 830a CD burner, but I am not. I can however assure customers that it took vastly more time and resources than the $60 to buy, and the five minutes to burn, for her to create and record the 20 song compliation of her finest work which you will create a free copy of with this device.
  Tony Gottlieb

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• 9 stars

  Great for the price.

  by cr1st1an on March 9, 2007

  Pros: Excellent quality

  Cons: I got no problems with it so far

  Summary: I works great for making your own dvd-video

  Summary: I works great for making your own dvd-video

• 9 stars

  great fast upgrade dvd burner

  by lusworld on January 8, 2007

  Pros: fast, fast,fast!

  Cons: tray faceplate is larger than old drives hole so may have to be removed to fit the hole in your computer case.

  Summary: Love the drive , it burns in about 5 to 7 minutes 4300gb of video. I'd give it a 10 for performance but because of the tray door having to ...

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  Summary: Love the drive , it burns in about 5 to 7 minutes 4300gb of video. I'd give it a 10 for performance but because of the tray door having to be removed as otherwise not fitting I marked it down 1 point. Overall very pleased with the quality of the drive. No copasters so far.

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• 10 stars

  Can you say fast? Great Drive

  by ronman101 on December 1, 2006

  Pros: 18X speed, 10X in the first few seconds

  Cons: Better have a fast Harddrive to keep up with transfer rate.

  Summary: This is my 4th sony unit (My 810A stopped burning dual layers correctly - coasters), but my 510 and 720A are great spares. I was very impressed with the write ...

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  Summary: This is my 4th sony unit (My 810A stopped burning dual layers correctly - coasters), but my 510 and 720A are great spares. I was very impressed with the write speed, 18X plus and minus. Plenty of burns with no coasters so far. My external USB harddrive is having trouble feeding the burner when it approaches 17x speeds - I've corrected this by increasing my burning software's buffer. Internal drive has no problems. I would NOT recommended this drive (or any 18X drive) with systems that have a CPU's less then 2 gig or you will not see the true speed of this drive.
  You will save up to 30 seconds between a 16X drive and a 18x drive. No problems with dual layers either, nice speed increase. With it for the price.

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