You just know it's going to be shit when you realize a well known company and another well known company joined together to create a new brand which sounds like a cheap Chinese manufacturer. Why the hell does Apple ship Optiarc burners anyways?
You know, it's a bad sign when a well-respected-at-some-point company and another well-respected-at-some-point company take their business and start a company that sounds like a cheap Chinese knock-off brand. Presenting Optiarc. The joint venture of the optical drive divisions of Sony and NEC, Optiarc makes DVD burners that happen to have ended up in a Mac Pro at my desk at work.
I can't tell if it's the burner, or the media, but the last three sets of media I've tried to burn with have all been major fail. Like, I think I'm up to 1 successful burn for the last 15 attempts?
Anyhow, the Sony D150 or whatever, which happens to be a rebranded NEC, got closer to burning the same media but reading it back on other better drives hasn't been successful.
Time to pull a Pioneer 110 from an old G5.
Posted by hachu at February 3, 2010 02:14 PM