I’ve had my Acer about a year and half now, I’ve replaced it twice under warrenty thru my supplier. I was selling this model drive in my computers, but don’t any longer. After problems I personally had with them, I don’t want to pass them on to my customers.
Acer’s CD-Roms seem to have a few problems. Sometimes a cd isn’t even detected when inserted.. but you click the drive and it spins up and sometimes appears. Other times is just continues spinning. Then theres the times it just spins and stops and spins and stops again, over and over, with cdr discs this is the most common problem.
Other concerns are that the drive usually dosn’t read at full speed, and when it does it really rev’s up and makes a ton of vibration noise.
Wholesale these units cost about 45.00 and are the same price as a Samsung CDRom. I figure I’ll give the other brands a shot now.
I still have my unit in my computer, its unreliable for ripping or copying cd’s to my burner. But until I find a cheep substitute for it, I’ll leave it in, occasionally using it. I’ll be using my CD Burner primarily as my cd- rom drive.