Weird Question--What's the fastest notebook Optical Disc Drive?

[Woofmeister]

I've noticed that notebook Optical Disc Drives often spin much slower than desktop drives, anybody know of which notebooks have the fastest spinning ODDs?

 

[IlllI]

get an external one if you want something blazing fast

 

[corkyg]

Originally posted by: clandren
get an external one if you want something blazing fast

Agree! Notebook opticals are much thinner and have therefore, smaller motors - less horsepower. I know of no review or analysis that has ever compared them all - the opticals are in most cases made for the notebook OEM by Toshiba, Panasonic, Mitsubishi, and/or a couple of others.

Notebook trays tend to be a little flimsy, and are much more prone to vibration from imperfectly balanced disks. For this reason, I will be looking for the newer trend - notebooks with slot feed drives.

 

[Woofmeister]

Mmmmmm notebooks with slot drives (drool).

 

[corkyg]

The Dell XPS 1530, 1330, and Vostro 1510 can be had with slot feeders.

I don't know why more don't use them - they are more rugged than trays - that's why they use them in cars. They have a higher MTBF than tray feeders, and don't have a tray to get in the way in a cramped mobile environment.

 

[heymrdj]

Originally posted by: corkyg
The Dell XPS 1530, 1330, and Vostro 1510 can be had with slot feeders.

I don't know why more don't use them - they are more rugged than trays - that's why they use them in cars. They have a higher MTBF than tray feeders, and don't have a tray to get in the way in a cramped mobile environment.

Ever try to get a disc out of a jammed slot / unpowered slot feed? You'll wish you had the tray loader believe me .

 

[thecoolnessrune]

Indeed, not to mention the complexity of a slot-load drive is very complex. Alot more to fail compared to a simply spring-loaded tray.

I go with the first suggestion, if you need blazing speed, external drives are the way to go! :thumbsup:

EDIT: This drive is FTW and will give your notebook the fastest burner speeds possible.

If you're set on the laptop drive they're almost all universally capped to 8x for DVDs and 24x for CD's. Again, smaller motor, inferior tray balance, speeds must be kept low to ensure the quality of the burn, otherwise you'd burn nothing but coasters.

There's also the problem that even if it did have the motor to burn full speeds, your battery would be toast inside of 20 minutes.

 

[corkyg]

Originally posted by: heymrdj
Ever try to get a disc out of a jammed slot / unpowered slot feed? You'll wish you had the tray loader believe me .

Sorry! I have used slots for over 5 years now and have never had a jammed disk - either in a computer or a car. Somewhere I read that a slot feed is more rugged and has a higher MTBF than a tray loader. Show me if I'm wrong.

 

[heymrdj]

Originally posted by: corkyg

Originally posted by: heymrdj
Ever try to get a disc out of a jammed slot / unpowered slot feed? You'll wish you had the tray loader believe me .

Sorry! I have used slots for over 5 years now and have never had a jammed disk - either in a computer or a car. Somewhere I read that a slot feed is more rugged and has a higher MTBF than a tray loader. Show me if I'm wrong.

We worked on one in June. Not sure if we still have the drive in storage or not as a showpiece as it was defective. But it was in an archaic machine, a Pentium 2 something. Anyways the drive was jammed and we had to disasemble the whole thing just to get the disc out. My brother gave it a tune up as we reassembled and got it to work after that I believe, but it may have jammed up again.