The Samsung drive in my Quicksilver works like a charm (newegg N82E16827151175 $20.99 and still in stock). I liked it enough to get a Samsung SATA for my Dell (newegg N82E16827151192 out of stock).
Any particular reason you guys like Pionere other then it was a good brand back in the day? I used to love Lite-on in the early 2000's for CDRW drives since they lasted forever with massive use, but quality seems to have gone down a bit when we all switched to DVD burners a few years later.
The old SCSI CDR burners (and some later SCSI CDRW) seems to last forever, I have some old 6x and 8x Teac drives that ended up being used on my IIfx and other 68K macs because they will not quit working and I moved on to newer drives for my main machines ages ago. Yamaha also made some killer old drives back in the day, and then quit the market about the time DVDr came about.
Any particular reason you guys like Pionere other then it was a good brand back in the day? I used to love Lite-on in the early 2000's for CDRW drives since they lasted forever with massive use, but quality seems to have gone down a bit when we all switched to DVD burners a few years later.
The old SCSI CDR burners (and some later SCSI CDRW) seems to last forever, I have some old 6x and 8x Teac drives that ended up being used on my IIfx and other 68K macs because they will not quit working and I moved on to newer drives for my main machines ages ago. Yamaha also made some killer old drives back in the day, and then quit the market about the time DVDr came about.