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Refurbished Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-M1202 $15.99 /edit: Now $19.99

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DrakeTechno

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(or 2/$30)

Noticed this while perusing... I've dealt with Directron before, and have been happy. Shipping is reasonable ($8ish for 2 drives).

Enjoy.

-drake.

/edit: Either the special is over, or they've juiced up the price a notch in response to the influx of orders. Now $19.99 or 2/$39.
 
Slow but not bad...
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I'll take a quiet reliable 32X CD-ROM over a noisy inconsistent 48 or 56X CD drive any day of the week. As for the 4.8 DVD speed being slow, how many of you do anything but play DVD movies in your DVD-ROM? My guess is this applies to most people, which means most people only use the DVD part of the CD-ROM at 1X DVD speed!! All the extra DVD speed is only used for DVD data disks, which never really took off like people thought it would. So IMHO, this drive is not "slow" and also in my opinion, Toshiba makes highly reliable drives.

 
Originally posted by: SimMike2
Slow but not bad...
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I'll take a quiet reliable 32X CD-ROM over a noisy inconsistent 48 or 56X CD drive any day of the week. As for the 4.8 DVD speed being slow, how many of you do anything but play DVD movies in your DVD-ROM? My guess is this applies to most people, which means most people only use the DVD part of the CD-ROM at 1X DVD speed!! All the extra DVD speed is only used for DVD data disks, which never really took off like people thought it would. So IMHO, this drive is not "slow" and also in my opinion, Toshiba makes highly reliable drives.
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the only reason to use more than 1x dvd, is when you are copying vob files if you make svcds or something. most peopledont do that though.
 
Originally posted by: hans007
Originally posted by: SimMike2
Slow but not bad...
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I'll take a quiet reliable 32X CD-ROM over a noisy inconsistent 48 or 56X CD drive any day of the week. As for the 4.8 DVD speed being slow, how many of you do anything but play DVD movies in your DVD-ROM? My guess is this applies to most people, which means most people only use the DVD part of the CD-ROM at 1X DVD speed!! All the extra DVD speed is only used for DVD data disks, which never really took off like people thought it would. So IMHO, this drive is not "slow" and also in my opinion, Toshiba makes highly reliable drives.
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the only reason to use more than 1x dvd, is when you are copying vob files if you make svcds or something. most peopledont do that though.
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But the higher end Toshiba's don't rip at their stated speed. I think they're downregulated to 2X or 1X. I have this drive and am quite happy with it. Only a little slower than my Lite-On 16X DVD for ripping.
 
Originally posted by: SimMike2
Slow but not bad...
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I'll take a quiet reliable 32X CD-ROM over a noisy inconsistent 48 or 56X CD drive any day of the week. As for the 4.8 DVD speed being slow, how many of you do anything but play DVD movies in your DVD-ROM? My guess is this applies to most people, which means most people only use the DVD part of the CD-ROM at 1X DVD speed!! All the extra DVD speed is only used for DVD data disks, which never really took off like people thought it would. So IMHO, this drive is not "slow" and also in my opinion, Toshiba makes highly reliable drives.
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quite an animated opinion.

Just one question. If Toshiba makes such highly reliable drives, why are they selling so many refurbs?
 
That's a good point about ripping DVDs, which I also do. My main point is that since everybody starting making all these supposedly faster 48X and 56X CD drives, their noise level and reliability went out the window. All of this for a very minimal gain in overall speed. In fact, everything after 12X speed was only incrementally faster than the 12X on up the line. And the cost in noise and reliability is very high. I think 32X speed was about as high as they worked good at. After this and many of them sounded like a 707 taking off.
 
I think the 12x Toshibas rip DVDs a lot faster than the 16x models. It is only the 16x that are limited to something like 2x DVD ripping, IIRC.
 
Originally posted by: CStrikeADDICT
Originally posted by: SimMike2
Slow but not bad...
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I'll take a quiet reliable 32X CD-ROM over a noisy inconsistent 48 or 56X CD drive any day of the week. As for the 4.8 DVD speed being slow, how many of you do anything but play DVD movies in your DVD-ROM? My guess is this applies to most people, which means most people only use the DVD part of the CD-ROM at 1X DVD speed!! All the extra DVD speed is only used for DVD data disks, which never really took off like people thought it would. So IMHO, this drive is not "slow" and also in my opinion, Toshiba makes highly reliable drives.
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quite an animated opinion.

Just one question. If Toshiba makes such highly reliable drives, why are they selling so many refurbs?
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Think this is the first time I've seen these, wish I needed a DVD rom, I'd buy one.
Have you seen them selling @ directron often or something?
I've seen just about everything available @ newegg in their refurb section at one time or another and it doesn't mean that gainward makes crappy videocards either. 😉
 
I've been using this drive on a family pc for almost four years! (come december). Absolutely flawless skip free playback. Can't really ask for more from a little drive that has been quietly chugging away for so long!
 
This was my first (and is still my only) DVD-ROM drive. It's quieter at 32x read speed than my 32x and up CD-RWs. On the contrary, the noise when opening and closing the drive tray is the loudest of all my drives by far. The only quieter drive (during full speed reading) that I have is a Toshiba 24x CD-ROM. I usually set my Toshiba DVD-ROM to run at 20x if I'm leaving a disc in and not copying data off of it. At 20x, I can't hear the drive at all over the noise from the other components in my computer.
Given how old this drive model is, I wouldn't pay $20 for a refurbished one though.
But if you're having trouble finding an RPC-1 DVD-ROM drive and need one quick, this will do.
 
This was my first DVD drive, which I happen to still own. The reason I kept it is one, it's quiet. The most noise I get out of it is on open and close. Two, as long as it has the right firmware, you can change regions as often as you want(even in XP)!
 
pretty good deal, directron is a quality vendor as well.. I believe I ordered a power supply from them, it came and did not work and they sent me call tags to have to replaced so I didn't have to pay return shipping
 
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