Its like everything else in this world.
When items first come out they are built
best but expensive. after about 10 years
of cost reduction and price competition
the product ends up woefully inadequate
quality wise and the worse part is you
cant buy a better one at more money even
if you want to....
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-----Original Message-----
From: Herb Chong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 10:35 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: CD-ROM drive life
they wear out much faster because they are more cheaply built. i have a pair
of SCSI drives close to 8 years old that work fine. they also cost over $400
each. my current drive was over $300 new and it is only a 32X drive. it's
getting on 4 years old. i have had 3 IDE CD-ROM drives die on me in the last
two years, but i paid less than $50 each for them.
Herb....
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cotty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "pentax list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 10:25 AM
Subject: Re: My own little *ist D review (fwd)
> On 21/9/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged:
>
> >But there is a disadvantage; those drives get rather hot and wear out
much
> >faster than the old ones. So I reduce the speed to 4X or 8X for reading
and
> >playing music. And I write the CDs at 40X rather than 52X.
>
> Didn't know that, but it makes sense. Nice one Don, thanks.
