Plextor 504-UF External DVD Writer + DVD Media Guide
Written by Spode (22/Feb/04)
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Inside
Here you can see the internal drive slotting into the IDE to
USB/Firewire interface.
And here is what was written on the drive itself. This a common method, to keep
costs down.
And here is a brief look at the circuitry. We won't go into too much detail
here as we will show more of this in an up-coming modding article.
Above is quite possibly the most annoying fan in the world.
It's 20mm pushing very little air yet makes this horribly whiny noise. If you
have a bit of time on your hands, cut a slightly larger hole and put a 60mm
fan in there. Becuase of this, I usually keep the drive switched off unless
I'm using it. Perhaps this is Plextor's attempt at getting us to cut down on
our power consumption :P