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| 536616 | 2007-03-29 00:48:00 | Ascent sell a "half height DVD burner" etc, see here (www.ascent.co.nz) for an example. A look on Wikipedia seems to say that half-height is a legacy term, and these days is the standard for DVD / CD drive bays. So, am I correct that buying this half-height DVD will be just the same as buying another DVD burner, that does not claim to be half height? Thanks in advance |
Ferg (2559) | ||
| 536617 | 2007-03-29 00:57:00 | Looks like any other cd / dvd that goes into a 5 1/4 inch bay. | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 536618 | 2007-03-29 02:23:00 | never heard of a drive being half height. maybe a misprint? usually its pci cards etc that are half height to fit half height cases (desktop/slimline) | tweak'e (69) | ||
| 536619 | 2007-03-29 02:41:00 | The first 5.25" hard disk drives were indeed twice the height of the current CD and DVD drives. They were considered to be very compact compared to 19" rack mounted drives which were usually 10.5" high. "Bigfoot" drives were 5.25" wide and 1" high. But of course, "half-height" could have been be an error, based on ignorance of recent (20-odd years) history. CD and DVD drives intended for use for laptops might be called "half-height" because they are (approximately?) half the height of a "standard" half-height drive. :( But a quick look at the specifications shows that this one is 41 mm high, so that it is a real half-height one (apart from the metric dimension). |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 536620 | 2007-03-30 10:56:00 | Thanks gents, have ordered the "half height" DVD burner, the half - height is not mentioned in the invoice, so as suggested, maybe just a hang-over from the old days. Cheers:thumbs: |
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