Are CD drives getting less usable as time passes?

[amigamad]

Your right on the noise and heat my liteon cd writer is ok but my lg dvd rom is noisy smooth tray mechanism though, and my phillips in the second pc is noisy and not very smooth you can feel the vibrations.I guess its the price for what they call progress. :-)

[amigamad]

I have heard some cheap/unbranded drives that sound like Concorde taking off!

With my philips its cheap and branded .my lg dvd drive was bought because it is my favorite budget make being that lg stuff is very reliable and is easy to make it multiregion it replaced my old mutiregion panasonic which took quite a while to acess discs as well as not reading some cdr discs.plextor make the best drives. :-) My old 4 speed teac writer is the best at everything leaves a liteon standing for quality.

[amigamad]

The prices of the drives now and the manafacturers need to make everything cheaper to compete with cheaper makes  of drive im sure does not help .To be honest my thermaltake 9 cpu fan cooling my athlon xp 2400 makes more noise i ran it at just under 4000rpm, very loud at a max of 5800rpm. :-D