The service life of the drive is 3-4 years, then, due to strong changes in the parameters of its parts, the number of read and write errors increases rapidly, the drive becomes unstable and must be replaced with a new one.
It is necessary
Motherboard manual, AIDA64 program
Instructions
Step 1
Specify in the instructions the type of interface that is used in the motherboard to connect a DVD drive, IDE or SATA, purchase a drive with the same connector. If there is no instruction, download from the official website and install the AIDA64 program on your computer. Run the program. In the left part of the program window that opens, select the line "Motherboard". Then select the item with the same name on the right side of the program window. In the table that opens, opposite the "System board" line, read the type of the computer motherboard. Find out the type of interface used in the motherboard by the type of motherboard.
Step 2
Specify the type of drive (write or not). Please note that there are drives that write to CDs, but do not write to DVDs, although they read from them. If you are planning to replace a drive on a laptop but cannot find the model you are looking for, purchase an external USB drive. Choose a drive from a well-known, proven company. Make sure that the selected drive can burn double layer DVDs, sometimes you need to write a file larger than 4.7 Gigabytes. Do not try to save money, a cheap drive may initially unstable or start to junk soon after installation. The best choice is a drive that supports DVD-R DL / DVD + R DL / DVD + RW / DVD-RW / DVD-R / DVD + R / CD-RW / CD + RW / CD-R / CD + R.
Step 3
If you are going not just to burn, but to copy discs, purchase and install 2 drives in your computer: a combo and a DVDRW. The first drive works well with CDs and reads DVDs, the second drive burns DVDs. In this case, the computer will not need to save the copied information to the hard disk and then write it to a blank disk in the same drive; it will directly copy information from one drive to another.
