From: "Ultra" :Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2000 8:03 AM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] More on cooling fans


> A bit of my $0.02, under normal situation, CD drives don't produce much
> heat, That's true. but running games (games that must read from CD) for 5
or
> 6 hours, or none stop burning CD for 7 hours is another story. I told the
> story before, I have to tell the story again, one of my co-worker burned
his
> first CD writer during a long time burning process because he placed his
CD
> writer and CDROM driver next each other (that leaves no space to let heat
go
> away). I'm pretty sure every one has experience that after a long run, CDs
> out from drives become warm/hot. I personaly have bad experience when
CDROM
> drive goes too hot (crashed my game, destroyed my 5 hours works) two years
> ago, since then, I have never ever let my computer overheat again by any
> meaning.
> As far as I know, there is no fans designed to solve CD drives heat
problem,
> except you can place a drive bay fan to one of your empty 5" bay right
above
> your CD drive (especialy CD writer). And yes, open case cover is another
> solution that won't cost you a cent.
>
> I have to say sorry to Bob, I'm not against your opinion, I just use your
> post as a base so I don't have to write something you've already done.
>
> Jun Qian
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Wright" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2000 8:00 AM
> Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] More on cooling fans
>
>
> >  Yes, I believe you have reason to be concerned.  A CD Rom drive,
> > even a writer drive should not be producing heat, at least I have
> > never seen one produce heat.  I do not know what drive you are
> > using and I am not sure that would help as I have never seen one
> > produce heat...  but, you can check with the manufacturer to see
> > if this is normal for their drive.
> >
> > As far as cooling, there is always lots of options.  Case fans bringing
> > air inside helps, even drive bay fans, these mount in an empty drive
> > bay.   We like the people at: Plycon.com for fans and cooling.
> >     http://www.plycon.com/
> >
>
I have to agree with Jun that some CDR, CDRW drives will have heat problem
from my own experience.  I had a Yamaha 4260 CDRW which had heat problems.
Even when they were not used they created a lot of heat and the drive was
sent back to Yamaha several times for warranty work.  Two days after the
warranty expired the drive died again.  From the news groups I gathered I
was not the only one having this problem with the 4260.  A 4260 I installed
in a customers computer died in the first month and a new drive was given to
the customer.  He never had another problem with his and is still using it
successfully.  I personally had had it with Yamaha and bought a Plextor.
The internal Plextor CDR drive has a fan in the case to help with heat
dissipation.  The drive is almost 2 years old now and I have not had one
problem with this drive.

Mary Wolden

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