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Are all cdrom caddies compatible with all drives?

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First post, by brostenen

Posted on 2018-03-31, 12:47

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I have wondered, if cdrom caddies are generic to the extend that they can be used across different makers of different drives. Like using the same caddie on both a plextor and a yamaha drive.

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Reply 1 of 2, by derSammler

Posted on 2018-03-31, 13:02

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As for Plextor and Yamaha, yes - they adopted the caddy design from Sony (which became the standard anyway). There were a very few early drives using custom caddies, but those are very rare.

Reply 2 of 2, by brostenen

Posted on 2018-03-31, 15:11

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derSammler wrote:
As for Plextor and Yamaha, yes - they adopted the caddy design from Sony (which became the standard anyway). There were a very few early drives using custom caddies, but those are very rare.

So basically. Any standard looking cheap ones on ebay is a go? I have however noticed that most have the latch in the middle, yet a few have a bit of a different design.

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