Back last May I talked about building my latest desktop PC. It was entry – http://blog.joeware.net/2006/05/15/371/
One of the pieces of hardware was an HP DVD840 which looked to be pretty good and it was a decent price, something like $80 or something like that from Amazon or NewEgg which I felt was a decent deal – certainly I couldn’t find it for less anywhere else.
Well now after using it since then, nay, suffering with it since then, I am here to say it sucks. I swear I reported this back to you all in the blog here but I couldn’t find it in a quick search. Anyway I built another PC back in about October and was going cheap on that one and threw in a Samsung SH-S182M for $32 and it blew the crap out of the HP drive. I mean it was like a race between a 60’s era Shelby Cobra with a 428 and a 1975 Pinto. Didn’t matter if I was reading or writing CDs, DVDs, you name it. They all sucked on the HP but raced along on the Samsung… Plus Vista RC2 couldn’t burn to the HP DVD for some reason but had no problem with the Samsung.
I ordered a new one for SuperFastMofo and although it came in back in November I finally got a chance to install it this evening and it is just great.
Avoid, I say avoid the HP DVD840. This is sad because I have had other HP DVD models that worked great. This one sucks.
So if you are looking for a good inexpensive DVD Burner with LightScribe capability – go to
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16827151136
joe
