CD DVD Rom drive

[Johan]

Hello,

I use Minimyth with a CD/DVD drive in order to play DVD's and to finally rip my music collection to Flac files.

Unfortunately, it seems that after about 50 CD's, my drive seems to be quiting on me.
It doesn't read audio disks anymore, and it has trouble reading DVD's.
After a few (2-5) retries, I'm able to play DVD's, but audio CD's don't seem to work anymore.

This happened to 2 CD/DVD drives already, both from TSST (Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology).
(These drives are very cheap, and it seems to show.)

Is there any recommendation for a good SATA optical drive?
I still have a lot of CD's to go...

[tsjoender]

Based on your username you might be Dutch? Here's an overview of DVD burners on the Dutch tweakers.net website:

http://tweakers.net/pricewatch/cat/350/dvd-branders.html

you can easily sort on rating or interface type (amongst others). Not meant to single out non-Dutch speaking users here, but it's another website I frequent and figured it might help Johan find a suitable replacement.