Mine has always had problems since it was 6 months old. I had to change the magnet platter with one from an older drive (the one it had was too weak and discs would slip during burns and get ruined). This bought me some time, but it finally got to the point where it was taking over 10 minutes just to see the files that were on a disc. So, tonight, it paid the price. Ejected it and snapped of the tray, then closed it back up. I'll be replacing it this week with this one, so I just didn't care anymore.

6 months old? when started having problems , i would of returned it
did have annoying problem before coaster after coaster, on old drive pioneer a05 (will never use again pioneer), didnt recognize half the media, and when it did, usually coaster city, for the last 100ish mb on the disc ;/

currently own a NEC AD5170A 18x8x48 write speeds dvd/dvd-dl/cd

Well, this last drive was an ebay purchase, so warranty was pretty much out of question. The two matching drives you see there are Samsungs and are both dead. Same model and abut the same age. So I will definitely not be buying Samsung drives again.The other one is a Plextor, and also died in less than a year. The only reason they're still in there is to fill the holes.

The only reason they're still in there is to fill the holes.

u should keep the panel covers u take off the case, for the cd/dvd drives well i do.. easier when want to upgrade pc, if selling old pc almost "whole", eg ur dvd writer take out, and some memory/gfx and replace with crap but functional .., guess u could just buy new case, and transfer (too much work thou) ..

This post was last modified: 05-14-2007 04:54 AM by over.

yeah i had one many years ago(Bleem days) while i was programming @ruantec-PS(PSX emulator made by me and my brother) and while testing some commands and code the drive destroyed my original Tekken3 CD into 1000 pieces!!

but it was my fault because i just play to much around with the Drive trying to make a faster reading code.

in your case seems to be a different story... strange..

This post was last modified: 05-14-2007 05:35 AM by @ruantec-Man.

So, tonight, it paid the price. Ejected it and snapped of the tray,

Nicely done Plot, well said.

Yeah, aside from printers, optical drives are probably the computer-related hardware that irritate me the most. I hate moving parts. CPUs, motherboards, RAM - they pretty much work or they don't. With other stuff you never know.

I'd have to agree, I have gone through the more optical drives than any other part of my computer. I went through two drives thinking that a specific game was killing them, I haven't played that game since (the discs would spin up and then back down over and over and then the drive would stop working for everything).

Kill count (at last total):
1 hard drive (Western Digital)
1 Power Supply (cheap no-name brand)
> 4 CD-Rom drives
1 Lite-On DVD-Rom

Current Lite-On CD-Burner sometimes causes my computer to crash, disabling it in the hardware profile gets rid of the crashes- I don't really have the money right now to replace it and it works when I need it to. For the most part the warranty on optical drives is a joke since it would cost about as much to ship it as it would to just get a new drive (unless you went out to get a fancy new Optical HD/Blu drive).

Yeah i had problmes too with my latest DVD burner from LG.
Now it only read discs if i open and clean the lens. Then after a week or so it stops reading again.
I got pissed and took it off, now im using only a LG cd-rom...

The Lite-On dvd burner i have in at the moment is really pissing me off, its starting to make those annoying grinding sounds when trying to watch movies on it, its giving me the shits i have to eject and put dvds back in like 5 times (there brand new dvds) before it will reconise them) i need to look around for a new one.

Plot I can somehow picture you as the kind of person who chucks his controller at the tv when he loses a mission in a game. shouting THIS IS BULLSHIT!

I have a HP dvd300i, that thing is just annoying. It only does CD/DVD-R/W+. No -, but oh well, got it for Christmas years ago. That's happens when I let my mom buy me comp stuff.

My drives are like FROM JUNKYARD. I've got a cd drive (works bad), a cd burner/dvd reader (that doesnt read dvd anymore, and barely burns cd properly) and my actual dvd burner, LG something. But its also giving me headache from time to time.

That's why I say, flash drive ftw.

Well, the drive has since been replaced. Let's see how long this one lasts.

My SONY DVDRW DW-Q30A still alive since 2005. My old LiteOn SOHW-812S already dead after updating to firmware US0S.

I once had a mint copy of Final Fantasy VIII get chewed by an Aopen drive...