I agree, thats why they are lite-on's I always buy them, and generally they are flawless...
by burner and DVD player are liteon as well.. never put a foot wrong.. for the price, you can't do better. rgds Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ronald J. Hall Sent: Sunday, 24 November 2002 5:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] First suspect - me 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. :-) -- /\ Dark< >Lord \/
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