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Cendyne 40x12x48 $29.90 OUT THE DOOR @ staples

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Raj

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Cendyne 40x12x48 sku 488960 for $29.90 out the door. no mail in rebates no tap dances no nothing.
 
Originally posted by: frustrated2
Is this a good drive?? Not real familiar with the name personally. Is it a rebadge of something else??
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it is USUALLY a rebadged Lite-on, if it is its possibly flashable to a 48x
 
Cendyne drives are pretty easy to see if LiteOn or not....if the model (sticker on back of box) begins with LTR, then it's a LiteOn. 🙂

Pretty good deal with no rebates! 🙂

Oh, and the 40X LiteOn's can be flashed up to 48X write speed! 🙂 (YMMV)
 
Originally posted by: Engineer
Cendyne drives are pretty easy to see if LiteOn or not....if the model (sticker on back of box) begins with LTR, then it's a LiteOn. 🙂

Pretty good deal with no rebates! 🙂

Oh, and the 40X LiteOn's can be flashed up to 48X write speed! 🙂 (YMMV)
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While looking for the LTR model number is a sure bet, you can still get a Lite-On even when the Cendyne drive model does not have a LTR designation. Case in point, I PMed three Cendyne drveis at Circuit City last week that simply had 48x12x48 as the model number and all three drives turned out to be Lite-Ons.
 
pretty much ALL 40x drives at staples were clearanced last month (and some before that) for 29.90 and 39.90

good luck finding any left! (clearance is all brands: sony/cendyne/pacific digital/etc)
 
To comment on the Lite-ON issue: I bought this drive and I got a different brand. It seems to be an Optorite drive, but it's hard to find information on it. It does have buffer underrun protection and such, and works pretty well.

When it comes to firmware upgrades, information is very sparse but I finally found this out:
The optorite drive (40x12x48, firmware 100C) is the very same drive as the MSI CR40-A2 (MS-8340S), and it accepts their 120D firmware update without any problems. It now reports as an MSI drive, and it works really well. I don't even want a LiteON, this thing works probably at least as well. It does write SafeDisc2 but not read it (i use my DVD-ROM for reading those).
 
Originally posted by: woodsman
Staple here in northern Pittsburgh is substituting Memorox( Lite-on) 52 x24x 52x for 29.99 out the door.
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Whoa, now *that's* flaming-hot!

Considering that there probably will not be any further speed-grades of CD-RW drives, and prices like that are hard to get any lower, while still maintaining any semblance of quality at all... where do they go from here? Or is this proof that the CD-RW drive industry is already dead, and we should all get DVD-xxx burners instead? Or maybe CD-RWs will become like floppies, and every computer will come bundled with a cheap no-name model included for $10, just so that you can still read and write CDs, after everyone else has moved on to something bigger? Interesting things to ponder.


 
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