20 Aug
2007
20 Aug
'07
3:04 p.m.
Not in my experience, but it seems that a fair number
of drives are. I'=
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had bad luck with some brands, and try to stay away from them, includin=
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one Alps that let the magic smoke out on first powerup, and assorted Mit=
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and some others. If I can, I prefer Sony, they seem a bit more reliabl=
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though there are no doubt some others. Got a whole box of drives around =
I've had a lot of success with Teac drives. Of course I also like the
full-height Sony's (600 rpm spindles), but that's becuase I'm an HP
enthusiast...
The less said about 'generic' drives the better. I've had some come from
the factory that were _wildly_ out of elignment (I don't mean on the edge
when you stick a CE disk in, I mean way out!). Oh they probably read
their own disk fine, but I wouldn't think you could interchange disks
with anohter drive.
I learnt the hard way to stick an alignment disk in every drive I bought
and see just how good it is...
-tony