[Macworld]

Post your comments for Review: LaCie d2 DVD?RW with LightScribe here

[jamus]

Lightscribes look interesting, but I wonder how the media holds up after burning? It just seems like it would not be as stable over the long term as other media.

[SamGumgee]

I hear that the etching fades over time?
How well the media itself holds up is dependent on quality of media used and method of storage.

[fergy]

I have a LaCie FireWire (Design by F.A. Porsche. I think I bought it 2007 with LightScribe.
Excellent "burner" but I wouldn't waste my money just to get LightScribe.
Tried to get updated software so I can use lightscribe on my Intel desktop with absolutely no resolution from anyone.
On a Power PC G4 it took more than an hour to burn a photo label. My understanding when I bought the unit was, they would be offering "color" but so far as I know they do offer it for Windows machines but not Mac.
I have three LaCie Hard Drives (External) and have no problems also have two LaCie Burners.
I have discs that were laser labeled at least a year and I don't see any loss.

[DVA_Airwolf]

Had LightScribe since the previous 16x LaCie and it's something you use once and then go back to using a Sharpie!
As for the real-world speed of burner, even with MacPros, Leopard, Toast 9.02 and the latest top quality Sony or TDK media, on the "Best" setting it only ever manages about a 7x burn, and really struggles with burning quality discs rather than coasters when put to the manual 16x plus settings.
The focus should be totally on bringing BluRay up to speed now, with the first of the 8x drives out earlier this month, and a theoretical maximum of 12x on dual-layer discs... saying that, everything could change again quickly as Pioneer just announced that they just pushed a "multi-layer" Blu-Ray disc in the lab to 500Gb with 4 extra layers.
In the meantime, decent 7200rpm Tb drives can work out just as cheap and probably quicker, so whilst I wait for Blu-Ray RD to further develop into 2009, all our work gets backed up to multiple Hard drives.

[rab777hp]

Doesn't look that sleek, and I think that most people don't have the need for all those ports, the $30 less Apple one is much sleeker and smaller, and I think, I may be wrong, that the speeds are very comparable.
Just my own personal opinion.

[hillstones]

You can get the Pioneer 117D bare drive for $31 from OWC and put it in your own external case or your compatible Mac as an internal. They also have it available in external options. I just bought the drive and use it in an external FireWire case with my iMac G5 because it is much faster (both reading and burning) than the internal slot-load drive.

[Flavum]

I'm beginning to sound like a broken record, but here goes anyway...
LaCie makes enclosures. They do not manufacture the burning mechanism within. Articles like this would benefit by providing that missing information - what company makes the actual writer encased in LaCie's enclosure? It's what's on the inside that counts (and this applies to hard drive reviews too). The case has very little to do with the unit's performance.

[mariorelvas]

Hi
Is it compatible with iDVD and the other iApps?
Thanks

[fergy]

You are correct about LaCie making the enclosures but they incorporate excellent "guts" and with the success I have had with them I don't care who makes the innards:)

This is a little like the houses I used to build. I built them in my name but the "innards" came from many places.

[hillstones]

Flavum said:

I'm beginning to sound like a broken record, but here goes anyway...

LaCie makes enclosures. They do not manufacture the burning mechanism within. Articles like this would benefit by providing that missing information - what company makes the actual writer encased in LaCie's enclosure? It's what's on the inside that counts (and this applies to hard drive reviews too). The case has very little to do with the unit's performance.

Read the entire article. The last section of the article lists the specs and the drive is made by Samsung.

[Flavum]

The article was updated. That information was not present when initially published.

[WarrenS]

ok, the burner makes a label burned into the disk, get that, it is not meant to be the end all drive. It does burn and it also laser etches a label on the cd or dvd.
that is what it does, no it dosent make chicken soup either.

[jlundberg]

I have labeled dozens of CDs and DVDs using LightScribe, and I can say that while it's nice, the etching DOES fade over time...actually in my experience, it's only taken a few months to see significant fading on my etched discs. It's probably due to handling the dics and the oils from hands getting on them and causing them to fade. Also, the discs do take waaaay too long to label - a full label in my experience takes 10 - 20 minutes...not very practical, but I only do one or two at a time so I tolerate it.