From my personal experience I rate a burners life to about a year, give or take a couple months. For some it may be more or less, but I burn quite often and put a lot of miles on my drives. I don't have a dedicated reader in either of my computers. I use my Sony lite-on as a read/write in my main rig and my benq as a read/write in my 2nd rig, which will put added stress on the drives. Recently Ive noticed my Sony making louder noises, and sloppier sounds when opening and closing the drive. It's not even a year old but sounds like it is on its way out after about 2000 writes.
A drive's diode should be good for 20,000 recordings of a full disc at 8X speed using 140 milliwatts of power. Drives capable of 16X recording and utilizing the full 16X speed use diodes capable of more power, but that full power shortens the life span of the diode. However, recording at 8X instead of 16X will prolong the life of the diode perhaps beyond the 20,000 recordings. Blue laser diodes are failing at 1/4 the lifetime of standard red diodes--a major problem for the first high definition recorders. Slower recording speeds also lengthen the life of drive bearings; but since the drive spins at its fastest rotational speed at the beginning of the disc, the difference is less significant than that for the diode. Faster speeds mean much more work for the diode than the drive motors or bearings.
I've never had a burner last that long lol. Sounds more theoretical than proven because I know other members on here have had drives crap out on them much sooner than 20,000 burns. I doubt anyone has has even hit 20,000 burns between all their burners combined (with the exception of maybe a couple poeple.) I've had 2 burners fizzle out on me over the past 2 1/2 or 3 years. My 3rd burner is on its way out, and my 4th burner (BenQ) performs fine because it's new. I'm not even close to 20,000 burns and I've had 4 drives now, and I'll be on my 5th once my Sony takes a dump.
Ok thanks, so about how many burns on average u think a drive can take ?, cause mine stopped functioning properly after about 8months and about 1000 burns, it was still burning ok for a while but only at like a 70 % rate, i got many burn failed, with a msg saying burn failed due to PM updated failure, until it reached the point where it burned the movies, but they could not be view so i changed the burner
Quote:stopped functioning properly after about 8months and about 1000 burns
Sounds about right I guess. How about anyone else? What is the average durration of your burners? Like I said before mine last me about a year or 2000 burns.
