Rant: Damn I hate DVD/CD-RW drives

[SarcasticDwarf]

I just lost another DVD drive through random hardware failure. I have now lost 2 DVD and 2 CD-RW drives (CD-RW, DVD, CD-RW, DVD). This bites!

 

[Kelvrick]

Originally posted by: DeathByAnts
I just lost another DVD drive through random hardware failure. I have now lost 2 DVD and 2 CD-RW drives (CD-RW, DVD, CD-RW, DVD). This bites!

either stop buying such crappy no-name drives or something else is wrong. probably power supply.

 

[Ness]

Some of you guys have the worst luck. I've never lost a piece of hardware.. except for a HD that developed a click. RMA'ed it, got it back, no problem since.

What the hell do you people do to your computers?

 

[Yossarian]

your mobo or PS is a POS. optical drives don't fail very often.

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

Originally posted by: Kelvrick

Originally posted by: DeathByAnts
I just lost another DVD drive through random hardware failure. I have now lost 2 DVD and 2 CD-RW drives (CD-RW, DVD, CD-RW, DVD). This bites!

either stop buying such crappy no-name drives or something else is wrong. probably power supply.

Nope, I change hardware enough that there hasn't been the same components in the system every time.

And yeah, they usually are from the hot deals forum, but not all. I lost a Creative drive too.

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

Originally posted by: Ness
Some of you guys have the worst luck. I've never lost a piece of hardware.. except for a HD that developed a click. RMA'ed it, got it back, no problem since.

What the hell do you people do to your computers?

I have probably had about $800 in hardware fail in the past 3 years (all different components). Thank god at least my Crucial memory is under warranty.

 

[geno]

Originally posted by: Yossarian
your mobo or PS is a POS. optical drives don't fail very often.

In the decade that I've been building/using computers, I've never had one fail on me

 

[johnjbruin]

i've lost one dvd drive, one cdrw drive and about 4 HDD's in the past 5 years.

my 8 speed CD-only drive is still chugging along after about 6 years now.

 

[TitanDiddly]

Buy Lite-on.

 

[myusername]

Hm. I went to the local computer store once for an emergency IDE cable, and one of the guys at the store was trying to tell me how 20% of all computer parts are bad out of the box. Needless to say, I haven't been back there since.

Wow, total neff.

 

[SSP]

I only lost 1 DVD rom and 1 8x burner. You have the worst luck ever!

 

[Shawn]

How the heck could you lose a drive? I still have an 8x cd-rom that works. My first cdburner (4x) also still works.

Edit: I did have one cdrom die on me but it was because of a defective PSU. It took out my mobo too.

 

[Vertimus]

Originally posted by: DeathByAnts

Originally posted by: Kelvrick

Originally posted by: DeathByAnts
I just lost another DVD drive through random hardware failure. I have now lost 2 DVD and 2 CD-RW drives (CD-RW, DVD, CD-RW, DVD). This bites!

either stop buying such crappy no-name drives or something else is wrong. probably power supply.

Nope, I change hardware enough that there hasn't been the same components in the system every time.

And yeah, they usually are from the hot deals forum, but not all. I lost a Creative drive too.

That explains it.

 

[0roo0roo]

yea i've had plextors that last long as pos brands... things fail pretty regularly

 

[kyparrish]

Originally posted by: PhasmatisNox
Buy Lite-on.

 

[Pepsi90919]

my powerstrip has an EMF filter on it and nothing attached to it has really failed. wonder if it makes a difference.

 

[Vertimus]

Originally posted by: kyparrish

Originally posted by: PhasmatisNox
Buy Lite-on.

 

[gregshin]

i would say in my exp that optical drives and HD's are the most fragile

 

[Trygve]

Originally posted by: Yossarian
your mobo or PS is a POS. optical drives don't fail very often.

They didn't used to for me--but I've had at least a bunch of CDRW and DVD/CDRW combo drives go bad out here in just the last few months. Most of the ones that went bad were only a few weeks or months old at the time.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Buy the decent stuff the first time, don't cheap out or in the end it'll be more

 

[Kenazo]

I've had more optical drives die than any other component, except maybe fans.

 

[Mark R]

Unfortunately, optical drives are unreliable. For my and my friends and family's systems, I have had more breakdowns due to faulty optical drives than due to all other causes put together (PSU, motherboard, hard drive) - and it's not just no-name brands either: yamaha, lite-on, mitsumi, NEC.

They are high-precision mechanical devices which, unlike hard drives, have to tolerate faulty discs (with subsequent violent vibrations) and are open to dirt and dust.

On the other hand, PSUs and mobos are essentially fully solid state so are highly reliable - the only PSU I've had fail has been due to a jammed fan - and it gave 6 weeks warning. The only motherboard failures I've had have been due to user error (I suspect a manufacturing fault on one, but user error is at least as likely).