Pacific Digital 8x Dvd Burner Serial Number

by **hydrogen** on Tue Mar 02, 2004 10:50 pm

If anyone has bought a Pacific Digital 8x dvd burner at OfficeMax, Staples, or anywhere else, could you please post the first 5 digits of your serial number here, and tell what brand, model, and color it is.

I want to make a list to help people out to get the drive they want.

Thank you.

by **xeetim** on Wed Mar 03, 2004 12:11 am

I bought mine at Staples.

Serial# 41V3K...its an NEC 2500A beige

by **hoxlund** on Thu Mar 04, 2004 1:45 am

wow, thats great to know, so now we carry both the NEC 2500a and the Pioneer 107 in our store (staples #1348)

by **miccha81** on Thu Mar 04, 2004 9:32 am

47935

LiteOn 851

by **the6carrules** on Thu Mar 04, 2004 3:49 pm

The serial number on my 8x Pacific Digital IDE burner starts with a "P" and shows up as a BTC 1008IM. It is my impression that all drive serieal numbers that start with a "P" are repackaged BTC 1008IM drives. Also, that drives starting with 4323 are repackaged LiteOn LDE-811s drives. Had no clue that it could have also been a NEC.

www.cdrinfo.com has a review of the PD drive (as a repackaged liteon) and as the straight BTC drive. I'm reasonably happy with the fact that I ended up with the BTC instead of the Liteon. Since I will end up paying only 85 bucks out of my pocket, tough to complain about which I got. Looks like all of them are very very close on the tests.

Hope this helps.

(forgot to add, got my at staples.com)

Anyone else find it odd that they didn't include any drivers with the drive? Windows XP Home is using a driver from 2001 for the drive and I can't find anything else that is more recent.

by **kgatwork** on Thu Mar 04, 2004 4:28 pm

The NEC rebadged PD drive come in a slightly different box and have a different SKU, the serial # typically are 41xxx where xxx is a combination of Letters and numbers. The box says 8x+8x- and the part number has 8x8 as part of its number. The 811s I picked ups was 4283xxx and 4783xxx. While the 851s was 4293xxx

by **tdbmi73** on Sun Mar 07, 2004 7:01 pm

I got a Lite-On 811S

Serial# 47940...

by **hoxlund** on Sun Mar 07, 2004 9:55 pm

also, i noticed at work, the PD dvd burner says 8x on dvd-r and dvd+r, so thats probably a NEC

by **Dartman** on Mon Mar 08, 2004 1:56 am

They have ran out of the liteOn ones here, they are mostly NEC's now and a few BTC drives. I got a NEC 2500 when the first sale hit and it kicks my 811's butt for almost all media.
My NEC had a 41A serial and they had some now with 419 serials that were NEC too. The 811 I just found had a 48035 serial and was a black face, A demo they had left over. A couple of weeks ago they also had a 851 with a 42 serial I SHOULD have also bought. The NEC drives also appear to always have the c211 as the last part.

by **rmdir** on Tue Mar 09, 2004 12:41 am

43240. beige faceplate. Drive is an 811. It was easy to identify, I opened the box and the Lite On sticker is still on the drive...no need to install to determine the model no.

by **KTL** on Thu Mar 11, 2004 3:54 pm

Would you guys mind posting which state you are in also? So far, I've yet to find any PD/NEC-labelled 8X burners here in the Chicagoland area at OM or OD. Thanks.

4794 -> 811S beige

by **hoxlund** on Thu Mar 11, 2004 4:14 pm

well i work at staples #1348, colorado springs, and the box says 8x dvd-r and 8x dvd+r, so my guess is that its NEC, even the pic on the box shows nec

by **Dartman** on Thu Mar 11, 2004 8:53 pm

Portland Oregon area here, haven't checked my stores this week.

by **rmdir** on Fri Mar 12, 2004 10:30 am

KTL...I'm in Chicago. I got it at the Harwood Heights store, on Harlem at Lawrence.

by **KTL** on Fri Mar 12, 2004 11:54 am

Dang...I've been there a few times before and didn't see any. Thanks, I'll check it out again.

by **hoxlund** on Fri Mar 12, 2004 12:19 pm

hey dartman i noticed you live in portland oregon, ever hear of a store called Mountain Mods?

http://www.mountainmods.com/

my new case: http://www.mountainmods.com/cgi-bin/pro ... m=U2UFOBCW shipped from there

by **Ian** on Fri Mar 12, 2004 1:23 pm

You spent $300 on a case??? :roll:

by **wicked1** on Fri Mar 12, 2004 2:03 pm

Ian wrote:You spent $300 on a case???

I wasnt going to say it. Thats alot of cash for a funky looking case.

by **hoxlund** on Fri Mar 12, 2004 3:14 pm

well what can i say, Cocaine is one helluva drug

i will be getting my case sponsored by PC Club here in Colorado Springs, totall custom job, when its done not even alienware can touch it

with shipping it was $330

by **Ian** on Fri Mar 12, 2004 3:23 pm

When hox is done modding it its going to weigh so much he won't be able to move it.

by **hoxlund** on Fri Mar 12, 2004 4:32 pm

i don't know, im pretty strong lad, i lift cases of paper at work all the time

by **Dartman** on Fri Mar 12, 2004 8:46 pm

Hox, No I haven't but there are quite a few places like that around here and a Frys in Wilsonville

by **arandur** on Fri Mar 12, 2004 10:01 pm

Got a Lite-on 811s 2 weeks ago here in Minnesota, serial # 42840. Only Lite-on and BTC serial #s around here. Same in the 2 stores in Chicago that visted in Crystal Lake and South Holland, Lite-on's and BTC's.

by **rmdir** on Sun Mar 28, 2004 2:38 am

KTL...sorry, I haven't checked this thread for a couple of weeks. If you go to the HH store, you have to ask them for the drive you want-they don't have much to speak of on the shelf. They go into the storeroom at the front of the store and find what you want. It helps to have a printout showing what serial number corresponds to what drive....they are absolutely and totally clueless about all things related to computers up there.

by **KTL** on Tue Mar 30, 2004 12:20 am

No problem rmdir. From all of the 5 OMs that I occasionally visit (Mount Prospect, Skokie, Niles, HH, Chicago - Fullerton

), they are pretty much clueless.

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