Sideways Mountable DVD/CD Burner?

[dimensionless]

I want an internal CD/DVD burner for $22-$35. It can be IDE or SATA I. There is one caveat, I want like it to be able to operate on it's side. I can't seem to find any drive that fit this criteria. There are slot loading drives, and then there are those in notebooks where the CD pops into the tray. I'm not sure what to call it. I haven't seen anything under $100.

 

[Soundmanred]

Most of them, if not all, can operate on their sides. That's why they have the little pieces on the tray that hold the disc in.

 

[dimensionless]

This is for a desktop. The last time I bought one, most seemed to have a tray to hold the disk. When turned more than 50 degrees, the disk slides off the tray.

 

[dimensionless]

Okay. I just looked at my drive, and it does have tabs on it. I never noticed them before, although it doesn't handle mini CDs.

 

[mfenn]

This Samsung will do what you want. It has little plastic tabs that keep the disk from falling out of the tray. I specifically recommend this one because I have one right in front of me and I know that it will work. Like Soundmanred said, this is a pretty common feature.

 

[Soundmanred]

While most drives have the tabs, some used to come with small slide out pieces that held it in better. I'm not sure if they still make them like that, I haven't seen them since the CD-ROM days.

 

[Zap]

Okay. I just looked at my drive, and it does have tabs on it. I never noticed them before, although it doesn't handle mini CDs.

I don't think the slot load drives would handle mini CDs either. I've used a number of normal desktop optical drives sideways (with tower laying down, or in slim cases) and have never had problems with normal sized discs as long as I handled them carefully when inserting/removing.