VanLUG Email Archive
Melissa Tan (ishstar@home.com)
Sat, 25 Sep 1999 20:38:01 -0700
I doubt that the box would actually say what the read/write speed of the
drive really is... I think the 50X applies more RPM. It's 50 times faster,
but they don't really put what 1X speed is on the box either. Unless it's
SCSI, I wouldn't get a 50X CDROM drive.
----- Original Message -----
From: Brian Edmonds <brian@gweep.bc.ca>
To: <vanlug@gweep.bc.ca>
Sent: Saturday, September 25, 1999 7:01 PM
Subject: Re: CD-ROM Drive
> Gabriel Mastico <feverish@grandfunkhighway.com> writes:
> > I doubt anybody's gonna have a shiny new 40x for $20
>
> And who'd want one? The last couple CDROM drives I've played with have
> been 50x drives and way too loud. It seems with every speed increase
> they just get louder, but I've not noticed that they feel any faster
> than the old 12x I use most at home.
>
> (Ok, if you're bulk dumping off the drive for duplication it might be
> useful, but for any other use it's just bloody loud.)
>
> Brian.
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