Originally Posted by
msheridan
So,
Most of the drives on the "Top Drives" list are either: a) no longer available for sale; or b) laptop drives?
Given that the most accurate drive on the list has a failure rate of only 0.62%, I think that makes this smaller list the list to focus on (no drive with a failure rate higher than 3x the best posted):
Mfr. Type Model Users Success Fail % Fail % Success
TSSTcorp CD-DVDW SH-S183A 475 32,831 467 1.42% 98.58%
LITE-ON DVDRW SHM-165H6S 189 11,810 157 1.33% 98.67%
LITE-ON CD-RW SOHR-5238S 78 10,929 100 0.91% 99.09%
SONY DVD-RW DRU-830A 140 7,691 115 1.50% 98.50%
HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GT30N 480 7,582 99 1.31% 98.69%
HL-DT-ST RW-DVD GCC-4244N 155 7,411 102 1.38% 98.62%
TSSTcorp DVD-ROM TS-H352C 121 6,804 83 1.22% 98.78%
PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W2410A 114 6,718 85 1.27% 98.73%
PLEXTOR DVD-ROM PX-130A 214 6,647 91 1.37% 98.63%
PLEXTOR CD-R PX-230A 126 6,591 56 0.85% 99.15%
MATSHITA DVD-RAM UJ-812 49 6,332 52 0.82% 99.18%
MATSHITA DVD-RAM UJ-852 142 6,224 64 1.03% 98.97%
ASUS DVD-RW 24B1STa 228 5,052 89 1.76% 98.24%
TSSTcorp DVDWBD SH-B123L 283 4,926 64 1.30% 98.70%
PLDS DVD-RW DS8A8SH 68 4,908 38 0.77% 99.23%
MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-85J 92 4,675 29 0.62% 99.38%
MATSHITA DVD-RAM UJ862AS 176 3,654 52 1.42% 98.58%
(any chance you could change your format to something similar to this? columns, with only the necessary/relevant info listed)