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somebody wrote:
> "Stefan Viljoen" <pov### [at] polard com> wrote in message
> news:4afdb19f@news.povray.org...
>
>> A friend of mine says doing it "my way" can damage the drive and / or the
>> tray mechanism
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> Regular DVD drives are dirt cheap, so who cares? Not that I've seen a
> drive damaged that way. The optical mechanism will die, get dusty,
> misaligned... etc, or the technology will become obsolete long before
> failure due to pushing the door. But if your friend is overly concerned
> about mechanical failures, he shouldn't be pushing the button anyway
> (which also would eventually fail) but use software "eject".
True, they are inexpensive, but if you can avoid spending money
unnecessarily...
My current drive is an LG and I'm pretty pleased with this one. Its been
going about 2 years now, no problems. Previous LG drives did at three month
intervals regular as clock work (had 4 of them in one year!)
But this one is doing quite well. I'll take the eject suggestion under
advisement!
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Stefan Viljoen
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