Hi Redskin, I have had good luck with Plextor brands, the Yamaha 3200 for me has been quiet as well, good reviews on Lite-on, TDK.
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I recently worked on a customer's PC that had Samsung drives, both a CD-ROM and a CD-RW. I don't know what models they were but they are about 9 months old and they were both quiet.
I've got two PC's and they both have Lite-On CD Burner drives and both are quiet.
Unfortunately price is not an indicator of how quiet a CD drive is going to be. But, most of the "noisy" ones I've run across are OEM drives that came with PC's.
Yamaha got out of the CD-RW business. Plextor Premium CD-RW has a quiet operation mode. If you want I quiet drive, go with them. You will pay over 2 times the cost of a Lite-On with similar read/write speeds.
My Hitachi CDR-DVD player is the same way. Dell swapped it out for me after it finally crashed and wouldn't recognize data CDs, but would play audio CDs albeit with the horrible hum. The tech listened to the old drive for a few moments, then stated that the noise was the drive was continually loading the CD.
The replacement drive worked for about 10 days, now it, too hums continuously while playing an audio CD. When initially swapped in by the tech, it would hum for a few seconds then go quiet.
I'm using Windows Media Player under XP for the application software, was wondering if anyone has had problems with other drives using Media Player, or if these Hitachis are just a bad bunch of drives that Dell bought. Or, is it a firmware problem where the drives don't recognize when the CD is loaded?
Whether or not Yamaha has gotten out of the CD/RW business I cannot say considering their web site still promotes drives
http://www.yamaha.co.jp/english/product/computer/ and the drives are available on-line also you see them in various stores here and there.
Too you pay for what you get, best stop now before I get this post deleted.
Later,
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My Dell came with a Sony CD-RW drive which is loud only when it is loading data off of game CD's. It is very quiet when playing a CD - whether I use the Microsoft software or the Dell j.b. version. No problems with noise there. The noise comes when it cranks up the speed for loading data from game CD's. They are replacing mine today under warranty - we'll see what happens.
The "high speed" noise when reading "data" from CD drives is common with many modern drives. They are faster and consequently with the faster running motor can be noisy. It's also not uncommon to be less noisy or quiet with slower CD reads.
Sounds like yours is no different than many drives. Noise is relative. What one person percieves to be "noisy" someone else may not consider it to be noisy. I've run across the same thing with keyboards, fans, printers, etc in the many years I managed a network and a hardware help desk.
Most CD burners I come along are loud except those without the high speed and ultra speed tag on it. However my OEM dvd burner that comes along with my Dimension 8400 is really soft...when accessing data and installing games especially when compared with the cd burner that I got. Playing audio cds is generally soft for both drives.
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Hi Redskin,
I have had good luck with Plextor brands, the Yamaha 3200 for me has been quiet as well, good reviews on Lite-on, TDK.
Happy Holidays
God, grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway,
the good fortune to run into the ones I do and the eyesight to tell the
difference.
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I recently worked on a customer's PC that had Samsung drives, both a CD-ROM and a CD-RW. I don't know what models they were but they are about 9 months old and they were both quiet.
I've got two PC's and they both have Lite-On CD Burner drives and both are quiet.
Unfortunately price is not an indicator of how quiet a CD drive is going to be. But, most of the "noisy" ones I've run across are OEM drives that came with PC's.
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My Hitachi CDR-DVD player is the same way. Dell swapped it out for me after it finally crashed and wouldn't recognize data CDs, but would play audio CDs albeit with the horrible hum. The tech listened to the old drive for a few moments, then stated that the noise was the drive was continually loading the CD.
The replacement drive worked for about 10 days, now it, too hums continuously while playing an audio CD. When initially swapped in by the tech, it would hum for a few seconds then go quiet.
I'm using Windows Media Player under XP for the application software, was wondering if anyone has had problems with other drives using Media Player, or if these Hitachis are just a bad bunch of drives that Dell bought. Or, is it a firmware problem where the drives don't recognize when the CD is loaded?
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http://www.yamaha.co.jp/english/product/computer/
and the drives are available on-line also you see them in various stores here and there.
Too you pay for what you get, best stop now before I get this post deleted.
Later,
Predator
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The "high speed" noise when reading "data" from CD drives is common with many modern drives. They are faster and consequently with the faster running motor can be noisy. It's also not uncommon to be less noisy or quiet with slower CD reads.
Sounds like yours is no different than many drives. Noise is relative. What one person percieves to be "noisy" someone else may not consider it to be noisy. I've run across the same thing with keyboards, fans, printers, etc in the many years I managed a network and a hardware help desk.
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