Is it time for a new drive?

[majinsoftware]

Iv been backing up my game collection and have gotten half way through and I think my drives died on me now.

 

Iv tryed swaping sata ports moving the backup image to my other hdd. Updated all drivers and firmware and restored computer from ghost image, Cleaned laser.

 

Drive is Asus DRW-1814BTL (about 8 months old)

Media is Verbatim 2.4X DL

mobo DFI Lanparty with NF4 chipset.

Computer is left and not used while burning.

 

Have 4 coaster so far out of the last 4 trys and 20 that work.

 

Im thinking of replacing the drive with a Samsung SH-S223F SATA 22x DVD-RW for $37.63 would this drive be fine what what I need, (backing up my xbox 360 games) Only need it for 10 more burns.

 

here is the log.

 

I 14:23:15 ImgBurn Version 2.4.4.0 started!

I 14:23:15 Microsoft Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 3)

I 14:23:15 Total Physical Memory: 1,046,956 KB - Available: 773,356 KB

I 14:23:15 Initialising SPTI...

I 14:23:15 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices...

I 14:23:15 Found 1 DVD-ROM and 1 DVD

[Cynthia]

Hi and welcome to the forum, majinsoftware!

 

Before considering a new burner, I would try to get rid of the 'buffers to recover' issue.

 

Computer is left and not used while burning.

Something on that C: drive makes it very slow to read from. It's in DMA mode and not in PIO mode?

[majinsoftware]

Should of said all my drives are sata and iv tryed different combos of ports, 1 to 8.

Tryed having the image on C: OS and on D: backup/video editing HDD.

Both hdd's checked out fine with check disk and hd tune a solid 70-80mb/s read.

Sata isnt set up for raid.

Also I made sure my anti virus was turned off.

[majinsoftware]

Just tested reading on it with some CD and DVDs I knew were good and it just BSOD the computer after a few secs of reading. So I guess its something wrong with the logic board. My old Sata DVD burner works fine with reading and burning single layer DVDs but it has no dual layer support and thats what I require.

 

Any one have any options on a Samsung SH-S223F?

 

Thanks.