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07-28-2007, 06:49 PM
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Junior Techie Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 58
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07-28-2007, 06:51 PM
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gone Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 2,030
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Originally Posted by techman321  | both, I was looking at this too until I decided to go with the samsung one just cause it won more awards, the sony one is fine too...
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07-28-2007, 07:03 PM
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True Techie Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Chicago Posts: 132
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Originally Posted by techman321 | Where you see "ROM" that means it's a reader. So this model will read CD's at 48x and DVD's at 16x, as well as write them at those various speeds listed.
Last edited by Paisan; 07-29-2007 at 12:38 AM.
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07-28-2007, 07:37 PM
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Junior Techie Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 58
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Thanks so much, guys.
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07-28-2007, 07:52 PM
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Ultra Techie Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 869
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Lol, does that thing only work with SATA? As in, no IDE cables? That's amusing.
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07-28-2007, 08:00 PM
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Monster Techie Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 1,009
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i didn't feel like making a new thread for a single question..so ill ask it here
if i were to get vista 64-bit (which i will later), do i need to reformat my seagate to import my files over? or can i just leave it the way it is, which is a storage bin
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07-28-2007, 09:14 PM
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gone Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 2,030
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Originally Posted by TriEclipse Lol, does that thing only work with SATA? As in, no IDE cables? That's amusing. | Theres SATA versions and IDE versions of almost every drive now...
__________________ q6600 g0 @ 3.0 ghz at stock voltage, Gigabyte P-35 DS3R
WD Raptor 150 and Seagate 320, Samsung DVD Burner and ASUS DVD Rom, Thermaltake armor case
Corsair HX 620 watt PSU, Tuniq tower 120 w/MX-1
EVGA 9800 GTX+ with 1 gig video memory @ stock settings, 4 gigs of OCZ HPC DDR2 800 PC6400 Ram
X-Fi Xtreme Gamer card, Logitech G5 series 2
Logitech G11 keyboard, Dell 22 inch monitor
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07-28-2007, 09:43 PM
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True Techie Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Chicago Posts: 132
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And, before long, no more IDE at all. They are slowly but surely being phased out.
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07-29-2007, 12:04 AM
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Ultra Techie Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 869
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Good riddance ofcourse, but that would still be a nasty surprise if someone didn't check before buying.
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07-29-2007, 12:13 AM
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Console Gamer Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 2,612
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Originally Posted by Paisan Where you see "ROM" that means it's a reader as well as a writer. So this model will read CD's as 48x and DVD's at 16x. | no ROM stands for "Read-Only Memory"
you want a DVD-RW drive as in "Re-Writable"
so if its just a DVD-ROM then it wont burn just read | |
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