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Quiet CD-ROM or DVD-ROM ?

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Camion

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I want to replace my ailing cd-rom with a new one, either cd-or dvd. I searched this board and found comments about A-open and Lie-On being obnoxiously loud. Do any of you have experience with drives that are particularly quiet? Reliable too, of course. Thanks.
 
i have a pioneer scsi 10x which i find does everything i need it to do and very quiet to me



Jen
 
I have a Toshiba SDM-1212. It's almost 2 years old now and is still going strong. One of the best buys I've ever made. Fairly quiet, fast, can read just about any CDR/CDRW, and supports DMA perfectly under Win9x, Win2k, and WinXP. I would imagine some of the newer models would just as good or better.
 
For a cheap drive, the LG 52X is very quiet - better than my Plextor 40X for noise abatement. Probably not the best for ripping CD's, but I don't use it for that anyway.
 
TrueX drives are extinct, Kenwood no longer make CD-ROMs, so that's basically out of the question. For DVD-ROMs though, I think you'll find Toshiba and AOpen on the quieter side. The Pioneer is not quiet by any means, but definitely tolerable. Lite-Ons can get pretty loud when they seek, but they're no doubt the fastest of the class. For an overall decent performance, check out the Pioneer, its drawbacks included audio extraction locked at 16x, and that it plays DVD movies at below 9x, not the best if you want to encode. Toshibas are almost perfect except for some stupid reason they lock the movie playback at 2-4x, making it useless for divx encoding; the drive itself is capable of reaching ~15.7x, what a waste, but it's still the best choice for CloneCD purposes. Lite-Ons are the quickest in almost every category, but they struggle in reading dirty/stractched/ill-maintained CDs, and they seem to create more errors than others in audio extraction.
 
*pulls hair out*

I've said it before and I'll say it again, just slow the drive down!!! Almost all current drives sound like a jet when reading CDs. The ONLY current drive I have seen that is not loud was a Hitachi 12X DVD which could not read a CD-R if it's life depended on it.

Go download Nero Drivespeed and use it to slow the drive down to say 8X. The only problem is not all drives are compatible with it. I've used it with Toshiba (notebook drive), Hitachi, Panasonic and Lite-On. It did not work with Samsung, PIONEER, or Acer drives.

If you don't want to use this program then I would recommend a Pioneer drive.
 
Why slow down the drive? That makes no sense to me. Simply buy a CD/DVD-ROM that doesnt sound like a jet when running full speed, I know they exist.
 
I wanted a quiet CDrom drive and after I read this review I got the AOpen 52x. It is a very quiet drive, quieter than the Lite-on 52x and 16x DVD drives I've put in several other peoples boxes lately.
 
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