On Saturday 23 November 2002 10:16 am, you wrote:
> No, even brand new CDrom drives have problems. I'll restate the bit
> about CD-RW's having 'better' lasers (and spindles). As to 48x and 50x,
> I've found the the faster drives tend to have more problems. Civileme
> stated much the same in a post some months ago, stating that anything
> over 12x actually caused a degredation in reading [my paraprhase]. For
> his exact words you'll need to search the newbie archive. Sorry, I
> can't begin to remember the subject of that thread. I wouldn't go as
> far as 12x, but if I were lookin for a new drive I'd try'n find a 24x
> from a quality vendor (eg, Plextor).
I'm with Tom here - I used, I say *used* to buy those generic brand X CD-ROMs
from Tiger Direct all the time - until about half of them died. Now, I buy
brand name only - currently I have a Toshiba DVD and a Plextor CDRW. Its the
way to go folks. :-)
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