Lightscribe Writer - Aftermarket or OEM to install

[crashnburn]

Is it possible to install an OEM / Aftermarket drive that has Lightscribe (or similar printing technology) in a thinkpad T6x or T4x series machine?

Thoughts?
Ideas?
Direction?

[DAH]

Well there is the Lenovo USB 2.0 Super Multi-Burner Drive with LightScribe Guess it depends on how you define in...

[NathanA]

I'm pretty sure that there are no 9.5mm LightScribe drives being manufactured by anybody...yet.

-- Nathan

[Alexander Heß]

Well, there is at least one:

Sony NEC Optiarc AD-7913A

[crashnburn]

Well, there is at least one:

Sony NEC Optiarc AD-7913A

So this could be installed in any T4x/T6x swappable drive bay?

[Pascal_TTH]

[censored] cheap ! 65 €... It must fit. It's a super slim drive (9,5 mm).

[NathanA]

Huh, interesting and good find, although I should point out that the above linked drive is not LightScribe but Labelflash, a competing standard by Sony/NEC that apparently only Fuji is manufacturing media for at the current time, so the costs for blanks are way higher than LightScribe blanks.

You can see this TomsHardware article for more information.

-- Nathan

[crashnburn]

Huh, interesting and good find, although I should point out that the above linked drive is not LightScribe but Labelflash, a competing standard by Sony/NEC that apparently only Fuji is manufacturing media for at the current time, so the costs for blanks are way higher than LightScribe blanks.

You can see this TomsHardware article for more information.

-- Nathan

Thanks Nathan. Did that googling, found Toms and a couple of other reviews. I'll hold off until these "fancy" techs stabilize or I have an urge to create PRETTY discs.