USB 2.0 CD/DVD?

[Dan Jenkins]

Bill McGonigle wrote:

> On Apr 26, 2007, at 12:30, Jim Kuzdrall wrote:
>
>>     I have been using a Liteon Model SHW-160P6S10C 16X DVD/CD drive  
>> with
>> SuSE 9.3 on an IDE bus.  It works fine with the K3b burner and Linux
>> DVD reader.
>
> I'm pretty sure that Liteon CD-ROM drives used to be made out of  
> paper when I was building PC's a decade+ ago.  But when I was having  
> trouble recently with a Pioneer drive (which has been my standard  
> brand for a decade) I found the comments on NewEgg raving about the  
> LiteOn DVD+-RW(RAM?) drive which was ~$40, so I got one and it works  
> beautifully.

A decade ago, we felt the same. Now LiteOn is on our preferred brands 
list (inexpensive, yet reliable). We've seen that progression so many 
times. 'Tis difficult still to forget the first fumbling semi-failures 
that have since matured into reliable products. Whatever we have been 
burnt with in the past, makes us twice-shy to try it again in the 
present; ofttimes costing us the benefit of the improved products. My 
business partner and I will frequently debate what brands to use, each 
of us having radically differing views depending on where in the product 
development cycle we first experienced them.

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