Creative 52x CDROM Drive.... HOT!

[ugh]

Hi,

I have a Creative 52x CD ROM drive which is reallly noisy when I load up a CD in it and when it's reading a CD. Apart from that, after reading the CD for like 5 mins or so, the CD gets REALLY hot. Would that kill my CDs or should I switch to a lower speed CDROM drive for constant/normal use?

 

[John]

I have used thoes CDROM's in the past, and they are terrible. I believe they are rebadged BTC drives anyhow. I would pull that POS out of your case, and give it a proper burial.

Asus and Toshiba have nice CDROMs.

 

[ugh]

What are BTC drives? I guess I should stick back to my good old LiteOn

 

[mztykal]

Dude get a Afreey! They're cheap and quiet when ripping. But fire up a game in that sucker and watch out! Cleared for take-off!

 

[ugh]

Heh... Haven't even heard of the brand Afreey

 

[Dennis Travis]

I have had 4 LiteOn CD Rom's die on me and friends of mine and usually in just a very few months. Have heard of nothing but problems with LiteOn. Some Compaq Presario's use LiteOn and every one I have seen has started to have problems reading CD's after a few months of use. I have heard about a lot of Creative 52x drives also dying. The Afree that mztykal was telling you about seems like a good overall drive. I have installed around 10 of them now for friends and customers and none have messed up or came back and they are pretty fast and are not bad at ripping audio either. I prefer Teac or Toshiba but they are usually more expensive than the Afree. We have a store just down the street that sells them. If you have the $$$ I would try a Teac or Toshiba though. There are other good CDRoms but those two have been very good to me.

 

[ugh]

That's an interesting sight bout LiteOn drives. My friend who works in a comp shop told me that LiteOn has given him the least troubles compared to other drives. I've been using mine for more than 2 years now and it has never given me any problems. Will check out the Afree drives. Thanks for the info.

 

[Dennis Travis]

Yeah that is very interesting. I am baseing most of my statement against LiteOn on computers I have repaired that had LiteOn CDRom's in them. I just had one die in a almost new Compaq I was working on. The drawer came out to take the CD and on going in made a Clunk. What happened is the whole assembly that holds the Laser broke off from the mechinsm that lowers and raises the laser as the CD tray goes in and out. It literly broke the two plastic flanges off and I just put in a cd and hit the button to close it and did not force it at all! The other LiteOn's that died on friends of mine simply would no longer read a CD and some would not read most CD's. I am sure that there are exceptions to the rule but that Shop seems to have had good luck.

On the Creative 52x though do a search here in the forum's. I have seen so many complain about the Creative 52x I figured it's not a very good drive!

 

[mztykal]

Here's what I've had so far...

- LiteOn 32x (in my Compaq)
- Afreey 50x (current)
- Creative 52x (too loud so it went back to the store)
- CenDyne 52x (waaaaay too loud)
- Teac 32x (current)

The Teac has fast access times and is really quiet throughout. It's a really good drive. The LiteOn had slow access times, slow DAE and all together sucked, but was quiet. The Afreey has fast DAE, fast but noisy access times. The Creative and CenDyne both had decent DAE and access times, but were so loud you could here them from the next room with the television and radio on. Oh well, I'd recommend the Teac or the Afreey though. The others suck IMHO. Hope that helps.

 

[GregMal]

I got a LiteOn (Digital Research retail) about 2 years ago and its
been the best CD Rom drive I've ever had. At 32x it's very quiet
and it has a unique door/tray that's slick to use.....
Greg

 

[Noriaki]

Creative CDRoms I've had.
32x died replaced with 36x
36x died replaced with 48x
48x died and had to be sent back to creative

So I bought a new 48x from a different store, then my 48x from the first store was returned as a 52x, which I put in my machine and gave the 48x to a friend.

The 48x has died on him, and my 52x has died on me, which has been replaced with a new 52x but I haven't used it yet (my old roommate did the swap for me cuz I live in a different city now, not sure if it's seen any use yet)

That's a 32, a 36, 2 48s, and a 52 all died.

And when the 52 was working it was pretty bad. Hot Dics, it sounded like a Turbine, poor CDR support...etc...

Later after the 52x died I bought a 50x Asus...holy crap is it better.
Discs come out very cool, reads absolutely anything, good seek times, good DAE speed...it's a little loud though...10400rpm...it's not unbearable but a little quieter would be nice.

Anyhow...the moral of the story is there are lots of good brands of CDRom out there, Creative is not one of them.

I'd recommend Asus, Afreey, Teac or Toshiba. I've consistantly heard good reports on all these brands. Everyone seems to like them quite a bit.

 

[TatSteeL]

my coz has one of this and it looks cool. One of the cool option i think is the turbo button.

 

[TatSteeL]

the cd hot is normal for 52x but for the noisy am not sure how noisy you mean but it usually make some noise. I have the memorex 48x and its not only noisy it also can not read that well so I don't know if your is like that. MEMOREX just sux.

 

[petepham]

That's funny... the Creative 52X is rated one of the top ten DATA/DAE speeds at cdspeed2000 (10th) actually, which is not too bad. The Kenwoods have high speed, but supposedly do not read CD-R's CD-RW's too well. I have a creative myself and I admit that it is loud, but it is very fast with data and decent with audio ripping.

 

[Zenmervolt]

I have a "40x" Lite-On (Digital Research branding) in my family's computer, and it is suck. Under SANDRA it benchmarks as a 6x drive, and it sporatically decides not to read any CD until I reboot the computer. Oh well, there will be a major upgrade coming soon anyway for that old box.

Zenmervolt

 

[Macro2]

I have a creative 52x w/turbo and yes, the thing runs real hot and the CDs come out warm. Does this have a detrimental effect on the CD?
I've yet to figure out how not to get it to run in Turbo mode or even if it is in turbo mode. Seems like these high speed CDROMS aren't what they are cracked up to be. I may kick back to something less that runs cooler.

Mac

 

[Duvie]

my cd-rom history

16x goldstar (great drive lost driver support)

20x cendyne (noisier but workhorse, in mom's computer)

40x acer (crap reader, too damn noisy, jet engine)

42x kenwood (current, blazing fast, yet to have cd-r problems haven't tried cd-rw's in it yet, minimal noise, sometimes possessed tray loader, HEHE) cdbench say 52x max reading cd's dont feel warm

btc 8x32x dvd-rom (current, great dvd-rom, quiet but lousy cd-rom reader)

aopen 12x10x32x (current, mild noise, decent cd reading performance, not picky so far)

Funny thing is when I first got aopen I had installed it over the dvd-rom drive in the 5-1/4 bays and the drive sounded so noisy...I lifted it up to the next bay and now it hardly makes a peep...may have some vibration issues.

 

[ugh]

Noriaki: GOsh... THat really sucks man.... I've tried Asus b4, but they seem quite loud as well. Perhaps it's a different make/model.


Anyone knows how to slow down a 52x CD ROM drive??? {g}