Fast and silent CD drive, does it exist?

[Cheetah8799]

Does anybody know of a CDrom drive faster than 32x which is also quite? I have used many drives that read data extremely fast, but they all spin very very loud. Some of the drives I have tested include IOMagic 56x, BTC 40x, AOpen 40x. The only solution I have come up with for the sound issue is to use a 32x or slower cd drive.

If you have a fast yet still quiet drive, please post the brand and model.

 

[merlocka]

The Kenwood TrueX drives were very fast and super quite. I have the 72x my only complaints are ...

poor performance when reading CDR / CDRW media
they die ALOT, i had to have mine replaced after 1 year and many people have had several units die on them

that being said, they are screamers when it comes to ripping from pressed CD's, and they are pretty much completely silent.

I now have a Toshiba 16x DVD and I must say it's not as loud as I expected, and it's quite fast with CDR, CDRW

 

[oldfart]

I have found LG drives to be very quiet. I've also seen that many Dell's have LG drives in them.

 

[Cheetah8799]

I was just talking with a guy this last weekend about the Kenwood drives and he told me the same thing, they die a lot and don't read burned CDs very well.

 

[stoner87]

My plex 16/40 burner and Toshiba 16/48 DVD are both nearly silent, once securely screwed into my case, even on sustained reads. My Delta cheapo 50x in my other computer sounds like a 747 upon inserting a disc and won't shut up until the disc spins down.

 

[Cheetah8799]

Maybe it has something to do with the cheapo generic drives. My IOMagic 56x drive also sounds like an airplane, so I put it in a system I rarely use just so I don't have to listen to it...

My current drive of choice is a Toshiba 20x SCSI drive that I got from another forum member. That thing is silent! Sure it isn't as fast as the 56x, but at least I don't go deaf listening to it...