Advice on Purchase
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I am desirous of purchasing a CDROM drive, and am dilatorius in my deliberation
by the enormous amount of pickings and options the industry is offering at the
present. Well, frugality is getting the best of me and I would appreciate any
advice pro or con, concerning the BSR drive. It is at present, being sold by
the DAK Industries in California.
Your advice is most welcome.
Malcolm
I would no sooner buy a computer product from a NON COMPUTER dealer
….hmm let me not be ugly. Tell a little about the DAK drive? Speed, access
time ext. Also what do you plan on doing with a CD? If it is only to look up
troves of info on a database, a dead dog slow drive will work fine. If you are
looking for the cutting edge of technology and someting to grow with that's a
mistake. remember..DAK only sells other companies' seconds and has beens. I
can say this and I think be objective when I say: when it comes to CD Players,
if you get a cheap slow drive, you get a CHEAP slow drive or you can get a fast
drive, pay more and I think most folks would be happier with that
J. Roosth,
Well the drive is made by BSR, caddy based and runs at 380 millisecond. It
comes with the complete interface kit consisting of interface card, cables
software and manuals. Three free CD's and of course, the standard "buy from me
and purchase these other titles at a special private discount." The cost:
$399! I have no idea who or what BSR is. I know this many people: (
) who own a BSR product. I know these ROM's are selling because I called DAK
for more information and they said that they were out of stock, and if I wanted
to place an order, I'd be placed on a two month waiting list.
I have purchased phone equipment from DAK in the past, and have been completely
satisfied above and beyond.
I think speed is important regardless of my needs. When I bought my blazing
25MHz 386, I thought it was fast enough – till I worked on a 486 running at
66MHz.
Anyway, DAK's phone number is 1-800-325-0800. I highly recommend the 5000IRX
telephone. It holds 300 numbers in alphabetical order. And Drew Alan Kaplan,
if you're out there-I want a cut.
I suppose my bottom line arguement for anyone comtemplating a CD ROM purchase
wouild be to getsomething that has a TRUE scsi or SCSI-2 interface. For
instance if you want to put a proprietary interface card on something like os/2
or probably NT it will not work well/if at all. It will also be more adaptable
to other systems you might put it in, IE a laptop etc. If you gonna spend 339,
spend 499 and geta Toshiba 3401 or try and find a clean used NEC or Texel. You
won't get all the titles with it, but buy whatever you get for the drive and
not the titles. I CAN assure you tha that those extra special offers for cd's
with drives tend to be last years editions and as cd players have improved so
have the CD's themselves.
When you look at the price of a drive you should also add in the risk factor to
the price. Mail houses do have good prices for the experienced hacker that has
installed other devices. When things now-a-days say user installable it does
not say the level of the user…..
Remember the famous three words at Xmas "MINOR ASSEMBLY REQUIRED"
If you read the system requirements on the outside of the box and you do not
know what they are talking about BEWARE…….
George,
Agreed, however DAK is an exception. His technicians rewrite the manuals that
come with his products. They are in basic step by step formats with text in
layman's terms and he offers a no questions asked money back guarantee. I have
ordered phone and lighting equipment from him in the past and have been
completely satisfied. I trust DAK, I just don't know anything about this BSR
product. I don't even recall any magazines reviewing their products
recently…..ever.
I do take your cautious advice soberly though. Thanks.
Malcolm