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To: Zeuspaul who wrote (5688)	1/30/1999 2:55:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

>>Plextor 8X write drive Yes, the specs look wonderful, especially the vibration damping given my experience with Plextor. What about your 8x CD? You were having problems initially, as I recall. Is this the same drive? Have the problems gone away? I still remember my failing, hot running, noisy 4x plextor with no affection, but I could never carp about the performance, that's for sure. While it worked (in fairness, it worked for over two years). I'm burning a CD now as it happens <g>. Good news about the Mylex controller. I much prefer "Medium Error" to, say, "5". Seems less ... impersonal.<g>

To: Zeuspaul who wrote (5688)	1/30/1999 4:04:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

>> Plextor 8x, again I just looked again at this drive at Necx. I had looked at it before your post at buy.com, actually, but there was only an external version there at 500+. Aggghh. It's tray (not caddy) loading. I can feel my last vestige of willpower crumbling. This really looks like a burn dream machine (what was the name of this thread again ? <ggg>). Faster'n a scalded grayhound and internally cooled and damped, no less. Do we believe the 60,000 hr MTBF? 6.8 years at 24x7x365. Nahhh. Still ...