Comments on: CD-ROM drives http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/256 Ian Lance Taylor Mon, 26 Jul 2010 08:38:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Ian Lance Taylor http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/256/comment-page-1#comment-14918 Ian Lance Taylor Thu, 16 Oct 2008 01:06:18 +0000 http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/256#comment-14918 ilyak: I certainly might have bad drives, though they were all bought at different times. It probably has more to do with the number of times they've been moved. etbe: this is the first time I've tried to use a CD-ROM drive in a few years, and it's hardly critical, so spending as little money as possible seemed like the right approach. ilyak: I certainly might have bad drives, though they were all bought at different times. It probably has more to do with the number of times they’ve been moved.

etbe: this is the first time I’ve tried to use a CD-ROM drive in a few years, and it’s hardly critical, so spending as little money as possible seemed like the right approach.

]]> By: etbe http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/256/comment-page-1#comment-14915 etbe Wed, 15 Oct 2008 04:32:56 +0000 http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/256#comment-14915 http://etbe.coker.com.au/2008/06/01/shelf-life-of-hardware/ I've had problems with CD-ROMs failing in the past, see the above blog post for some of my experiences (the main one being four dead drives in two days). Currently I'm trying to replace my CD-ROM drives with DVD drives, as I periodically deploy desktop PCs running Linux as routers I sometimes get the chance to replace a DVD drive with a CD-ROM drive before deployment. As for the cost of buying the drive, maybe you should have just got a couple of DVD drives, spending half the money on shipping isn't good value and it's the kind of thing you will need regularly. http://etbe.coker.com.au/2008/06/01/shelf-life-of-hardware/

I’ve had problems with CD-ROMs failing in the past, see the above blog post for some of my experiences (the main one being four dead drives in two days).

Currently I’m trying to replace my CD-ROM drives with DVD drives, as I periodically deploy desktop PCs running Linux as routers I sometimes get the chance to replace a DVD drive with a CD-ROM drive before deployment.

As for the cost of buying the drive, maybe you should have just got a couple of DVD drives, spending half the money on shipping isn’t good value and it’s the kind of thing you will need regularly.

]]> By: ilyak http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/256/comment-page-1#comment-14909 ilyak Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:13:33 +0000 http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/256#comment-14909 Mine still work. I don't remember any of my drives ever failing completely (but some of them had degraded perfomance, glitches during read and write). Maybe you've got some extra bad drives there? Mine still work. I don’t remember any of my drives ever failing completely (but some of them had degraded perfomance, glitches during read and write).

Maybe you’ve got some extra bad drives there?

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