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To: Spots who wrote (1461)	6/22/1998 8:12:00 AM
From: Sean W. Smith	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

<Sigh> Sean, I must raise a flag on your advice again. NOT that I think it's bad <G>, but my experience adds amelioration. The ONLY CDROM I've ever had fail was a Plextor SCSI 4x drive. It died the moment its warrantee expired. Plextor is off my list of reliable manufacturers. Of course, anything can fail, but the distinction of being my only failure matters to me. The darned thing ran hotter than a house afire, which probably is why it failed. To each his own. Most of the misconceptions in the world come from people who base their opinion on a sample of one. One, even 10 is not a significant sample. If everyone had the same philosophy no one could ever buy anything since at least someone has had a bad experience with a price of hardware or sofware, even the ones that I design. I will repeat my opinion and one that is shared by many. Plextor makes excellent CD roms and I have sold hundreds of them and personally have not experienced high failure rates. I think the efforts of end users to rate manufacturers defect rates is futile and nearly impossible. Unfortunately no-one tracks this information we leads to consumers making irational decisions anytime something breaks.... Heat may or may not be a factor. depends on the design. Sean