Sony DRU-800A Review

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Average User Rating: 6.9

1. I still trust Sony

   

   By: Swast
   December 5, 2008 @ 10:34 AM

   My Sony DVD writer DRU models are durable except with the OEM AD models which manufactured by NEC, I find the OEM models less compatible with other players. I switched to Asus, which I find very slow in burning, so I long to find Sony dru models since there are available stock now in manila… I’ll try lite-on instead of lg and Samsung.

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2. Low Lifetime

   

   By: Mike
   September 16, 2008 @ 9:32 AM

   This drive worked fine for about three years, then failed. I had to replace it with a CD drive that was manufactured 3 years earlier, but still working.

   Rating: 4 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful. Was this user review helpful? Yes | No

3. Waste of money

   

   By: Cosmo
   September 16, 2007 @ 12:07 PM

   This burner can’t read its own DVDs! There are many people who have the same issue with this burner. I made data backups, checking the DVDs after burning them. The disks are fine, but this burner can’t read most of the data 90% of the time.

   Rating: 1 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful. Was this user review helpful? Yes | No

4. Only Half-good... so it's half bad

   

   By: Hun Symani
   September 9, 2007 @ 8:38 PM

   Good for burning DVD’s, no problems. But when it comes to CD, the music playing skips, or there’r some bad sectors on backup cds. Don’t throw out your CD-RW, you’ll still need it!

   Rating: 5 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful. Was this user review helpful? Yes | No

5. Best burner I've had so far.

   

   By: cartman-2000
   August 16, 2007 @ 10:31 AM

   This is the best burner I’ve had so far. I’ve had very few bad burns with this drive, less than 5%, and This burner can burn CD’s better than any DVD/CD burner I’ve had before. The DVD burner I tried using before this was a MaxDog burner which was a piece of crap which didn’t burn discs correctly at 16x. I bought mine 2 years ago and am just now starting to crap out, most of the other drives I’ve had haven’t lived for more than 1.5 years before they go bad.

   To the guy below me, you probably have a bad drive, I have no problems with mine.

   Rating: 10 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful. Was this user review helpful? Yes | No

6. Not recommended

   

   By: Sub
   August 8, 2007 @ 2:33 PM

   I have had big time problem with this DVD writer for the simple fact that half of the DVDs i burn on this writer gets wasted. half way thru, this writer either fails to burn the contents or gets stuck. 1 have wasted 6/10 DVDs like this. i donno if this problem exists only with my writer or if its a universal issue..

   Rating: 2 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful. Was this user review helpful? Yes | No

7. Great Deal

   

   By: Sindawg
   November 10, 2005 @ 4:46 AM

   Got the 800a for $54.99; it finished almost an entire 4.7GB disc in about 7 1/2 minutes. The listed retail is $110 though, I feel bad for the guy who bought it for $130. Ay yi yi.

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8. Compatability Issues

   

   By: Dane
   July 28, 2005 @ 7:50 AM

   I have four DVD players in my house and the Sony 710UL had no problems playing disks on all of them, but then I buy the new 800 series and find that now 2 of them won’t play the DVD burned by the 800. WTF

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9. sony or liteon

   

   By: Raj
   June 26, 2005 @ 10:11 AM

   This model of Sony is actually based on Liteon’s SOHW-1693S. As Liteon is a vendor to Sony I won’t be surprised if it is manufactured entirely by Liteon. Does this mean Sony or Liteon, it’ll be same performance.
   I gave it only 5 as I still have to find it’s performance.

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10. Fast drive, works well

    

    By: Phil S.
    June 22, 2005 @ 11:34 AM

    I just picked up this drive about 5 days ago, and it’s been working great. I’ve only burned dvd+r discs so far, but I haven’t had any issues using Verbatim discs. Plus, the drive looks great and comes with 2 face plates (I prefer the white/clear one myself). I picked mine up at Staples for $130, which is worth it since the no-name brand dual layer was $100.

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11. TechFreak needs to chill

    

    By: Gio
    June 15, 2005 @ 10:29 AM

    Poor Devoid is just someone trying to get an opinion out there.

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12. Did you even read the review?

    

    By: TechFreak
    June 14, 2005 @ 10:01 AM

    Devoid is a good name for you since you are missing your brain. The NEC and Plextor you mention DO NOT support Dual Layer -R media, of course they are cheaper, they are older drives.

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13. Compared to a Samsung & MSI Drive??

    

    By: Devoid
    June 14, 2005 @ 9:12 AM

    This is just weird – 2 of the best DVD Writers out there are the NEC 3540A and Sexy Plexy’s 716A. It’s better to spend ~$110 on the Plexy if you want and need performance! For speed, go for the ~$70 NECD 3540A. No way this drive could get a super review from me

    Rating: 6 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful. Was this user review helpful? Yes | No

14. Worth the money

    

    By: Jim
    June 13, 2005 @ 10:56 PM

    Just picked up this drive last week, its smoking fast. I have not tried DVD-R dual layer discs yet (can’t find them) but so far the drive has been reliable.

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