Im gonna go looking for a CD-rom for my box, but CDroms aren't exactly very fashionable things that you can go out and find alot of review on.
So, Im asking you peeps instead
Here are my priorities:
Not too loud, Im not THAT sensitive, I just don't wanna feel like there's an airstrip next to me.
Not too long spinup time, a long time ago when I didnt really care, I read about some CDs being able to begin reading before reaching full velocity, sounds nice.
Good at reading burned, scratched, etc discs.
Performance does NOT matter too much, I mean really, how often do we use these things these days?
I mostly use it cause them annoying game makers keep insisting that you keep your disc in the player while gaming, and Im too lazy to find no-CD cracks.
Now, to give you a point of reference, my current CD is an Asus 50X, the older model, I hear the newer ones are quieter.
It is too loud, not as much as a 7200 RPM CPU fan, but still, a bit loud for my tastes.
Spinup time is too long, takes forever, and spins down pretty often, so if an application does somewhat frequent reads, it will spend alot of time spinning up and down.
It's very good at reading everything I throw at it, only thing it couldn't read was my horribly scratched Fallout CD, I had to use Asus itility to set it to 4X, then it worked.
Performance is great, it's very fast once it's spun up, but as previously stated, that's not really a priority.
Any advice?
So, Im asking you peeps instead
Here are my priorities:
Not too loud, Im not THAT sensitive, I just don't wanna feel like there's an airstrip next to me.
Not too long spinup time, a long time ago when I didnt really care, I read about some CDs being able to begin reading before reaching full velocity, sounds nice.
Good at reading burned, scratched, etc discs.
Performance does NOT matter too much, I mean really, how often do we use these things these days?
I mostly use it cause them annoying game makers keep insisting that you keep your disc in the player while gaming, and Im too lazy to find no-CD cracks.
Now, to give you a point of reference, my current CD is an Asus 50X, the older model, I hear the newer ones are quieter.
It is too loud, not as much as a 7200 RPM CPU fan, but still, a bit loud for my tastes.
Spinup time is too long, takes forever, and spins down pretty often, so if an application does somewhat frequent reads, it will spend alot of time spinning up and down.
It's very good at reading everything I throw at it, only thing it couldn't read was my horribly scratched Fallout CD, I had to use Asus itility to set it to 4X, then it worked.
Performance is great, it's very fast once it's spun up, but as previously stated, that's not really a priority.
Any advice?
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