Four in Five

I just bought my fourth burner in the five years I’ve had my G3. I seem to be eternally cursed by bad burners and bad Firewire cases. The last lump of poo was a Pioneer drive in a very bulky EZ-Quest case which never properly burned DVDs and totally shut down after my year warranty expired. I took it to my friendly, local computer fix-it shop and they had a look at it. First they thought it was the drive, so they swapped out the drive for a new one and…that didn’t work either, so they thought it was the case. In came the new case…and the old drive didn’t work, so I had to get a new case and drive. Jiminy Christmas.
So, now I have what you see above, a Metal Gear case with a Plextor PX-712 12x DVD burner (48x CD) inside. It doesn’t use a fan (great!) and is all lit up with blue LEDs, making it look like a pimpmobile. It makes all sorts of low noises when it starts up (not in a bad way), some sounding like a secret radio transmission. I’m putting it through its paces as we speak.
We’ll see how long it lasts. Seeings how much I paid, it better last several years, thank you.