I've had to surgically remove a couple mini-cd's from slot loads.
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yeah, damn things, plus they don't let you put your coffee mug on their cup holder...wait...they don't even HAVE a cup holder!!!! wonder what kind of idiot came up with the idea... j/k
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ROFL. I never trusted slot loaders.[size=1]D3/\/7YCR4CK3R
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LiteOn's are the best for region free. The company doesn't try and stop people from modding firmware, afaik. LiteOn's have been know as being the most universally compatible drive (i.e. no read/write problems with any of the major burning suites) for the past couple of years.“Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get outâ€
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Thanks guys! If/when I get round to replacing the drive, I think I will go Lite-On. I just want something reliable as cost doesn't really come into it when they are all within 10-15% of each other, and quite cheap as a component anyhow.
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I had to replace my old Pioneer slot-load. I couldn't find the new Pioneer models for sale anywhere, until I started looking at pictures. My "Asus" DVD drive is just a rebadged Pioneer
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Well, the only thing I have to add is this:
Lite-On's QA is horrific. But you knew that already. It's just a crapshoot. I've ordered several LTR-163B's, and one of them was horribly broken on arrival. The others were fine.
As for noise, they're ALL too damn loud. But... my Hitachi is pretty quiet. The tradeoff is that its extraction speeds are poo. And they're hard to find nowadays, too.
The Liteon, Plex, and Tosh all have virtually identical extraction speeds and compatibilities. I'd go Liteon, just because it's like... $35 right now on Pricewatch.
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P.S. If someone DOES know of a REALLY quiet drive, lemme know - I need to buy a new one in the next couple days myself.The Internet - where men are men, women are men, and teenage girls are FBI agents!
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Gurm, have you used the Plextor utilities to lower the maximum speed? I'm pretty sure I saw that option in Plextor's tweaker.Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.Comment
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When I thought about it...I remember now that my old asus cdrom interpreted pushing the 'skip to next track' button as 'slow down' when reading data. Do asus dvd-roms have this as well?
btw, my teac cd-540e slows down when reading cd-audio (but doesn't have this handy feature of old asus drive; it's a little problematic watching divx from cd because of this; and external 'slowing down' aplications doesn't work as I would want to - they're causing something that I can compare to random read test: the laser is moving A LOT). IMHO dvd-roms drive should do similiar thing when reading dvd-video...
and are there any with reliability comparable to my cdrom drive?
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