Kioxia reportedly kills off 30-year-old Plextor brand — icon of the optical drive days spins up its last SSD

ZodaEX said:
All 3 of my optical drives are Plextor. They make for fantastic DVD movie players.
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Exactly. All my rigs have one, just for the DVD playback.

The Zip drive comment upstream reminded me: I had a Gateway computer with one in it and I'd never seen it before. I tried prying that zip disk out after it got sucked in. I finally, randomly, pressed the green light and "boink!" the disk popped out. WTF? ;) Glad I stopped prying with the screwdriver, lol.
 
horrorshow said:
What was that one error that was so prevalent when burning cd's?

Buffer Underrun or something.... I can't recall - I just know I had to burn CD's at 4x max or that would happen and ruin the disc
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Yes indeed. If you were trying to do too many things with your system at one time, you would get a buffer underrun and make a coaster.

Or, if your burner were a POS, and if you tried to do anything at all, even if the screensaver popped up, then you'd generate a coaster.

Most of the time, you could alleviate this by burning it to the hard drive first, either as a temporary file, or as an ISO, and then burning it from hard drive to CD-R.
 
Unabomber said:
Yes indeed. If you were trying to do too many things with your system at one time, you would get a buffer underrun and make a coaster.

Or, if your burner were a POS, and if you tried to do anything at all, even if the screensaver popped up, then you'd generate a coaster.

Most of the time, you could alleviate this by burning it to the hard drive first, either as a temporary file, or as an ISO, and then burning it from hard drive to CD-R.
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I def remember there was MANY a setting in... Nero! - back in the day, you had to all the settings justttt right in order to get a psx game to copy

I still remember the first game I duped, R-Type Delta... When that disc actually booted up on my psx, it was like a miracle (PLUS, it helped I worked at a video rental store at the time)

Those were the days man
 
horrorshow said:
What was that one error that was so prevalent when burning cd's?

Buffer Underrun or something.... I can't recall - I just know I had to burn CD's at 4x max or that would happen and ruin the disc

(I had a Memorex POS 8x back in 99-2000 or so, basically used it exclusively to rent PS1 games and burn copies for my modded system... Having a spindle of PS1 games was mind-boggling at the time heh)
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You had to keep it writing (any CD burner)...no stopping for breaks...
 
cjcox said:
You had to keep it writing (any CD burner)...no stopping for breaks...
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It eventually evolved into having a Netflix sub for I think it was 6 dvd's at a time, we had a machine who's sole purpose was ripping/converting to divx, then ogg, and finally mkv...

We had like half a dozen of those big-ass case logic cases full of movies/series before it was all said and done. Ridiculous for 2003-2005 era

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Zarathustra[H] said:
I don't understand how you tolerate 480p content in 2024.

I haven't been able to watch DVD's in over 15 years. Once my eyes adjusted to 1080p content, I just can't make myself go back.
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I'm the opposite, every now and then I get lazy and skip the streaming or the mkv or the BD that I might own...and just grab the DVD because its there......and I'm reminded of just what a big deal it was to get those DVD's at 480p. "EVERY PORE ON HIS FACE" and so forth...it's there....the moves to higher resoulutions have been impressive, but to me not as impressive as the jump to 480 progressive frames.
 
My first SSD, that I bought January 2013, was a 128 Gig Plextor M5S.
I chose the Plextor brand specifically because I was a Plextor fanboy and trusted them.
I sold the drive in 2015, gave me zero grief, zero blemishes on SMART.
 
I miss the day of building multi-Plextor optical drive systems for studio recording. Could always count on Plextor for drives and Adaptec for host controllers.
 
I thought I'd miss the 5.25" bay when the power button in my 800d shat itself but since I was just ripping and copying to the server I moved the drives to the server and it works better this way. At the end the discs go back into their cases and onto a rack in the same room that is locked to keep dogs, cats, and nieces out of it.
 
horrorshow said:
My buddy's Dad worked for HP in the late 90s. This gave him access to high speed internet and a plextor cd burner....

While most teens were selling candy in the halls, he was selling disc's of porn for $20 a pop.

Let's just say, he made a killing and his "regulars" swung by our lunchroom table about once a week....

He called/labeled them "Supa Discs"... Vol. 1, 2, 3 ,4 and on and on it went lol
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Dammit, you mean somebody copied MY original idea ?...if I had known, I would have kicked their arse bigtime ! :D

But anyways, yea, Plextor drives were da bomb back then.... I had numerous models & never ever had a single issue with any of them !

And as for Zip drives, they were the thing of their time, before CD-R came around to crush them.....back when my 1st wife was studying Graphic design in college & all the classes required that each student have a MINIMUM of 10x 100mb disks with them for every clas,s to save/copy their projects to, so they could take them home or to the campus comp lab to work on...
 
We used Plextor CD burners to submit gold masters. No other drive was as reliable at the time...
 
De facto standard in the 90s. My $600 4Plex SCSI-2 (1994 dollars or ~ $1250 now!) that took caddies was faster than anything else in its day and had an enormous 1MB buffer!
Of course things got faster and so did the SCSI drives. And the UltraPlex burners were superb as well.
 
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