wrote:Wow a Creative 5x Drive ?!
Yeah, those are cool! They were (also?) sold in the DXR2 kit, with a DXR2 MPEG decoder PCI card.
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Interestiing - I've always loved those sturdy Plextor models, I'm lucky owner of 3-4 of those, and 2 of them are SCSI (used in my Win2k dual PIII build). They work well, and seem to be indestructible. Here you are some pics of a part of my collection, the drive in the last one is boxed with the entire Creative Encore Dxr2 multimedia kit.
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I would toss the Creative 52X drive. Nearly any of those that I put into PC's back in the day, failed in a short period of time.
My favorites are NEC, Pioneer, Samsung and Lite-On. LG DVD drives were notoriously slow for R/W speeds, and wouldn't work with cheaper DVD-R discs like Ridata.
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The Creative 52X is very similar to some of the Lite On units, I'm pretty sure it's made by Lite On.
As for the Creative 5X, I was thinking about selling it with a Creative DXR3 card I forgot I have. It still has the weird VGA to S-Video cable with it. Would that be of interest for someone ?
