I just noticed that some DVD-RW drivers are about 20cm, but my bay drive is only 15cm, so how would they fit in there :o? (planning on buying a DVD+-RW btw, any suggestions would also be welcome :) )
Here, in the USA, the size of CD burners and/or DVD burners has not changed since the beginning of time. The bays that they sit in have been standard size ever since I bought my first computer in 1991.
I did not realize that the drives differ in size for other parts of the world. (Of course, I was never concerned with that fact.) You learn something new every day.
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ohhh, ok, I'm from Canada, so we probably use the same standard, so i'm guessing the website that's from a different country and thus different standards
Hi Agent_J. If you look at your picture, the mounting holes are in the same place reguardless of the length. You may just have some extra over-hang in the rear area. So you might possibly have the back hit something inside. I haven't ever run into a mounting problem.
Anyways, for those who might want to know; the Lite-On writer (as is the case with most, if not all, Lite-On drives) are a shorter length allegedly because of some proposed new standard concerning size of optical drives.
This is from (vague) memory. Think I read it in the gumpf that came with my Lite-On 166S reader.
Personally, I think it's a cost reduction exercise.
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