Re: Gradual CDROM Door Failure

"William R. Walsh" <newsgroups1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote in message news:NCush.232372$aJ.62447@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi!

Heaven knows why they still make belt driven CDRom/DVDRom
drawers, it's completely unnecessary and decreases reliability.

The belt drive method is quieter than most gear drives. There's very
little
slippage present in a belt drive tray movement system that is in good
working order, so I doubt there is much difference in that aspect.

William


Agreed. I think a well designed belt drive system makes a lot of sense in a
CD/DVD drive tray. As someone pointed out it needs to be able to slip for
clutch use. A gear system would break or need expensive sensing hardware. As
fast as technology changes you really don't need a drive to last 20 years.
The newest technology can be bought or buy what the early adopters are
getting rid of, cheaply.

Bought a servo controlled cassette deck a long long time ago because just
about every other one I had died from belt system failure. It's still
working fine but have put all the cassettes onto discs. Have a 60disc CD
changer but will be putting them onto a HDD soon for use with a network
media player. :)


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