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Patok wrote:
BillW50 wrote:
Patok wrote:

The vast majority of internal laptop optical drives are just plain
slimline drives with extra brackets and sometimes adapters. So you
can put in virtually any type you want too.

Any slimline, you mean. Back when I was looking for a replacement
drive, all slimlines were no more than 8X, that is, the same as what
I already had. As there was no way to put in a full-sized one, I
bought an external one.

Only x8 speed? I wonder if they are still limited to this speed? As I
believe all of my slimline drives all are x8 speed.

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

Oh, I thought you were talking about an external 5¼ type. So what
kind of laptop do you have that gets so hot? All of mine run
relatively cool, except for my gaming laptop. But I wouldn't use
that one to burn DVDs anyway.

It is not the laptop that gets hot, it is the drive itself. It
"helps" that the radiator and fan assembly are diagonally on the
other corner of the laptop, and while the chips sit comfortably
around 45°C, the drive itself heats up. With use, that is. Burning
one DVD is enough to feel it by touch, on the panel above the drive.

Well mine do get hot, but I never had one quit writing reliably. While I
do have lots of computers around here, six of them have swappable drive
bays. So it is easy to pull one out and feel and test with an IR temp
probe. I dunno, it sounds like your solutions sounds the best for you.
And can you actually burn x8 or faster with USB? As I don't see those
speeds with USB optical drives.

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Bill
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