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In article <boonlow.753215138@sfu.ca> boonlow@kits.sfu.ca (Boon Chong Benjamin Low) writes:
>Hey there,
>          I just called a couple of mail-order companies and they told
>me that NEC has stop producing their double speed cdrom drives any more.
>Can anyone please confirm on this piece of news ?
>
>Also, do anyone own the tripple speed drive ?
>I am tempted to get one but am afraid that it might not be widely
>supported in the future or CD's might never take advantage of the higher speed.
>I now that current CD's wil not take the full advantage of the drive as the
>material used is too soft for spinning at tripple speed.
>
Yes, this is true.  NEC is moving onto their newer drives (due soon).
I purchased the 84-1 (external) version about a few weeks ago from CDW
at quite a discount because they're being phased out to make room for the new.


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In article <2c93hn$ot9@transfer.stratus.com> kdj@meegook.sw.stratus.com (Ken Jordan) writes:
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>Yes, this is true.  NEC is moving onto their newer drives (due soon).
>I purchased the 84-1 (external) version about a few weeks ago from CDW
>at quite a discount because they're being phased out to make room for the new.

I'm curious with how much did you pay for it (the discount price)?
Thanks.
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Boon Chong Benjamin Low (boonlow@kits.sfu.ca) wrote:
: Hey there,
:           I just called a couple of mail-order companies and they told
: me that NEC has stop producing their double speed cdrom drives any more.
: Can anyone please confirm on this piece of news ?

: Also, do anyone own the tripple speed drive ?
: I am tempted to get one but am afraid that it might not be widely
: supported in the future or CD's might never take advantage of the higher speed.
: I now that current CD's wil not take the full advantage of the drive as the
: material used is too soft for spinning at tripple speed.

: Thanks for any info,
: Ben.


Something like that seems to be happening in the Uk at for some reason the nice
external multispin seems to have some down to a level almost on par with that
of the internal tosh double spin. Either their are mass assalting the market
of getting rid of existing stocks.

At the moment I have not seen any triple speed CD-roms. There were none in the
review of cd-roms in my pc mag.


The speil that current materials in cd-roms is too soft is rubbish.
Pioneer manages to produce a quad-speed 600K transfer drive using standard
cd-roms as the media. I have heard of no problems with them.


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