BillW50 wrote:
On 4/23/2011 3:29 PM, Patok wrote:

I use several laptops, but no desktop; that's why I have the external
powered burner. Other than that, one of my laptops already has its
internal drive with exactly the same parameters as the one Jo-Anne is
buying - reads/writes everything at up to 8X. Not only is it slow (and
one has to factor in the verification time after burning - hopefully
nobody here burns without verifying the written data), but it overheats,
so I can't really burn more than one regular DVD at one sitting. Without
a cool-off period, the next ones become coasters.

I don't know what kind of laptop you have? But I have over a dozen. And
most of them have internal burners. And six of them have removable drive
bays. So I can insert an internal burner into any of them very easy.

It sounds like yours doesn't have an internal burner. Well you can
replace it with one or get an external burner. It sounds like you did
the latter. And in this case, the slimline design probably would not be
a good choice if you burn a lot.

The above passage and the one that follows show that there's some
miscommunication. The laptop I was talking about *has* an internal burner - the
one that overheats with heavy use. That fact, and because it is slow at 8X, made
me buy the external powered burner. There would be no point in replacing it with
another just as slow, even if it didn't overheat.


I haven't ran into any overheating problems. Although if I did, I would
add a fan. If it had one, I would add a bigger one. As I never had a
problem yet when I had to wait and let it cool down (ok back in the CD
only days I did, but not for DVD burners). As that would be totally
unacceptable to me.

True, but how do you add a fan to an internal slim-line laptop drive?

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