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Quick CD-ROM Drive Question

heard kenwood 72x drives are good, but i personally have had trouble with 40x (along with hundreds of others at least) and i don't know about 52x, but your mileage may vary - maybe the kenwood you buy may not have probs.

plextor as far as i know makes cd-roms but not IDE cd roms (they make IDE for CDRW's though).

Sony and NEC are good, Dell uses NEC cd drives on their comps.

If you want generic BTC is somwhat reliable.
 
I use a 50X Hi Value. It was $39.95 at Best Buy. Hey, no prestige here, nevertheless, it works just fine.
 
the kenwood trueX use two lasers in "parallel"...and are rumored to
fail during reads of moderately "scratched" cds....but are definitely
the fastest drives available - their ratings are not the standard MAX,
but more true of their actual speeds.

6X DVD costs $99 CDN, 52X CD costs $55-60....
if i didn't already have a DVD, i'd get one instead...also, be sure that more and more software titles will be avaiable on DVD and not CD-ROM in the future (perhaps quite a ways off, but nonetheless, i've already seen quite a few).

cheers.
 
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