EOM refers to two artists - 1. a US rapper; 2. a Korean singer by the pseud… Read Full Bio ↴EOM refers to two artists - 1. a US rapper; 2. a Korean singer by the pseudonym EOM, previously Lee Taemin, previously EOM Taemin.

--

1. Daniel Carey (born April 25, 1988 in Manassas, Virginia), better known as EOM (Elements Of Music) was a music producer that was widely known for being a part of the duo with rapper Wax. He passed away in 2018 due to complications from scleroderma.

EOM first began making music through the art of beatboxing before he engaged into beat-making and production. He became a full fledged producer around 2006-2007, and created music until his death in 2018. His most easily recognized release is Liquid Courage, which was released November 8, 2008 with Wax.

--

2. EOM Taemin is a Korean indie singer, debuting in December 2019 with the EP "Diploma".

Finding Sounds
EOM Lyrics

We have lyrics for these tracks by EOM:

T Geudaen haengbokhae jigetjjyo unmyeonggateun uri-ui sarangeu…

The lyrics are frequently found in the comments by searching or by filtering for lyric videos

TRACKS

No Related Genres

More Genres

No Artists Found

More Artists Load All

No Albums Found

More Albums Load All

No Tracks Found

Genre not found

Artist not found

Album not found

Search results not found

Song not found

Comments from YouTube:

Bu Jin

3y↑58

Kenwood: "Let's create the most awesome CD-rom the world has ever seen!"
Also Kenwood: "Let's make it out of the cheapest materials we can possibly source!"

Wotzinator

@TH3MZ i dont understand the question

TH3MZ

@Wotzinator why though?

Wotzinator

2y↑2

I mean they had to keep the cost down somehow

Link Smith

5y↑617

"You plug it in, and things work... unless they don't." I think every computer guy in history can relate.

A walrus

2y↑1

Plug 'n' pray!

Lerch 2013

3y↑1

@CryptoJordan That reminds me of a neighbor of mine in college, he had a '70's MG Midget with a bumper sticker saying "All the parts falling off this car are of the finest British craftsmanship' He spent more time repairing it than driving it.

Dane Hartsough

Lol of course XD

Diego D'Onofrio

3y↑2

Every computer girl can relate also 😉

Destuba E

It just works

3 More Replies...

Jan Rasmus

6y↑320

The true power of the Kenwood is the error correction. Because of the different angles of the beams most scratches could be read without slowing down. We needed this drive becausebit was the only one that could handle on-the-fly CD copy with the Plextor 12x CD Burner. All other ROM drives would empty the Burners cache and mess up the CD by 90% chance.

Jeroen

4y↑15

@Kevin Upchurch Oh wait back then there was'nt software that would pause the burning proces if a buffer underrun was experienced. And yes, without it it blew burning of CD's.

Eartheternal

4y↑12

I remember that!

I just had a flashback of starting at the cache gauge like this:
😥
🙏

Good times!

Kevin Upchurch

5y↑27

holy shit those old SCSI Sony burners did the same thing if they were paired to anything less than a 52x

David D.

6y↑1K

LGR. Hey man. David Drake, Owner of Tech Dragons Computer Repair here. I owned Both those drives when new back then in fact I had several of the Kenwood 72x drives. I just wanted you to know that the kenwood is not yellowed. they were always a cream color instead of the white or beige that the other drives at the time were. So do not waste your restoration chemicals on it. also I found that at least back then I could get it to read burned disk by mounting it with vibration dampers in between the chassis and the drive and making sure it had 4 screws not just 2.

Night Riders

3y↑3

Fascinating. I bought one when it just came out. Never had ANY issues reading burned discs. And it still does read everything i am throwing into it in my retro build. What a wonderful piece of long forgotten tec :-).

Marco TIffano

That's a great report David, thanks!

Dylan Goldrick

4y↑3

I have the original box. It is supposed to be white

TheCessnaDriver

4y↑16

That drive must’ve had issues with vibrational harmonics when it wasn’t mounted properly, causing disk read errors with CDRs and other sensitive optical media

Grant

4y↑6

oh, hey it's davey boi. tech dragons shop is stuff of legends.

3 More Replies...

André Müller

6y↑1.5K

And so, im sitting here in 2018 and watching a 13 min video about a cd-rom drive... what a time

Nobara

2y↑1

@There Is Spaces Here it literally was yesterday what are you talking about?

There Is Spaces Here

2y↑1

How is this comment 3 years old already, feels like 2018 was yesterday.

REAL

3y↑1

2021 woo

DoomFinger511

3y↑1

I'm from the future.... just wait until around March 2020, you'll be spending a lot more time sitting around watching YouTube vids... also invest in Moderna and Gamestop stock.

Nathan smitty

3y↑2

2021

33 More Replies...

myc0p

5y↑444

1. Let the disc spin up to full speed
2. Eject the disc using pinhole eject procedure
3. ????
4. PROFIT!!!

Mr. Spectacals

2y↑1

@DoomFinger511 especially if they're a Mac user.

Indellable

@Sean Ramey My Xbox 360 when I try to eject a rare game: "Is ThIs An EmErGeNcY? i'Ll MaKe It OnE!"

Icositetrachoron

3y↑1

@DoomFinger511 I remember back in my middle school days, when I frequently enough needed a paperclip to eject floppies stuck in the drives in the Mac lab, because those computers opted to use software ejection rather than via a physical button. I took a retractable eraser (does anyone remember those?) and removed the long eraser bit, then jammed the still-folded end of a mostly-unfolded paperclip into it, and voila, I had a retractable paperclip device that I could keep alongside the pens in my Trapper Keeper. I dubbed it the "Macintosh Disk Retrieval Tool", or MDRT. Kid me was perhaps a little too proud of it.

Sean Ramey

3y↑2

@CaffeinatedTech That is absolutely not true. It works. It's an EMERGENCY eject, to be used only in emergencies. Might be a bit harder when the drive is spinning though.

DoomFinger511

3y↑7

Every computer guy always had a paperclip on hand just in case they had to use the pinhole ejector. What a time to be alive.

3 More Replies...

fixxxer3456

5y↑152

Ahhh, I remember when CD Drives sounded like a jet engine going off

Michael

I miss it, you knew something was happening

KopperNeoman

>The Wii U playing Xenoblade X on Not Blu-Ray

Miguel Elgueta

3y↑5

Admittedly the sound in the Ps4 is just fan/cooling system.going overdrive when all the cores of the APU get used to the max, not the bluray unit

Miina Emad

4y↑9

Ps4 fan:am i a joke to you?

VortechBand

4y↑12

You can emulate the experience nowadays with a Macbook Pro running Docker :D

Henrik Høyrup

5y↑92

8:07 you know D2 was HUUUGE back then when companies released firmware aimed at that game.

Jeremiah Bostwick

5y↑41

I had two of these. The first one failed just under the year mark and Kenwood actually RMA'ed it without hassle. Then the second one broke after about another year. Then I really realized why A) people talked so much about their failure rate and B) why Kenwood and their beam splitting technology quickly exited from the marketplace.
It occurred to me that the big issue with the drive was likely the beam splitting. It's hard enough to keep an optical reader clean enough to properly read a disc (especially in those days). It is likely that it was darn near impossible to not only keep the laser clean, but then all of the components that split and put back together the beam as well. In other words, the failure in my drives may not have been outright mechanical failure at all. But essentially having components that would fail over time due to simple dust. Still, that's a terrible design fault, and clearly Kenwood couldn't keep making these things with that issue.
For me, when it worked, it worked well (and quick for a CD-ROM drive). Just had a terrible failure rate.

DoomFinger511

3y↑1

That's an interesting point about dust. I could see that being an issue and difficult to clean without breaking the drive.

gantmj

4y↑35

I remember my dad playing a computer game in the early 2000s, and hearing the CD explode.

ZeeXP 🇺🇦

skibidi bop mm dada

Bob Jones

3y↑1

@Potatoes and Trucks Damn

Potatoes and Trucks

3y↑9

thats what happened to me a week ago. I found an old CD in my drawer and decided to see what i've put inside it. I used to put random crap inside it. I noticed a small crack in the middle of the CD but i didn't give it a second thought. I put it inside the drive and started exploring the CD. It worked fine. Then i decided to write a zip file with a game just for fun. I set the speed to maximum. 48x speed.
It sounded like a jet engine revving. Suddenly i heard a huge explosion and bits and pieces from the drive struck my face. The front of the dvd drive literally exploded and plastic bits where everywhere. The CD had disintegrated into a million pieces. I removed the drive from the PC, cleaned it and now it works fine. But i have to close it manually because the motor mechanism and the button is destroyed. It also looks like part found in the junkyard lol. Im surprised it still works. The drive is from 2008

Yushatak

6y↑3

I'm surprised it met its claimed specs so closely - with speed like that I would have expected them to scale it to match the claims of other drives and end up with 256x or something, heh.

Mr. Redfield

3y↑2

The installation speed is influenced by disc drive speed and also by the os. I remember that XP with the same hardware has much more speed. I wonder what speed reaches with SSD and XP installed

Channel Dad Bryon Lape

5y↑61

Oh the days of CD-ROM drives speeding, then slowing down, then speeding up, then slowing down.....and being slower than drivers that stay constant.

roskelld

6y↑770

Back in about 2000, we were all working away in the office when we heard this loud bang. After searching around the room we discovered that one of the guys PC was running a game CD, can't remember which game now, but the tray tried to eject whilst the drive was running at full speed. The CD was shattered, shards of it managed to penetrate the drive case. Pretty wild to witness a PC try to weaponise itself.

AleVintage90s

Unfortunatelly my Philips DVDRW did the same 2 times back in 2004 (the tray ejected the disc when I was using it) : the first CD that blew up was a simple CD-R during burning (and I did not use to burn at full speed) so I decided to give the unit one more chance, but a few months later it did the same with an original disc, so I thought that it was time to ask for warranty. I recived a new unit, not a certified repaired one: I still have it, use it and it still works after 18 years. I am pretty sure that it was a concern with the first unit, but nothing related to the model, at least in my case.

Tmccreight25Gaming

2y↑1

So basically the guy's computer turned it's CD-ROM Drive into a frag grenade?

Greg Daweson

@Y e e tlejuice I use one with blu-ray disks...

Tom Jacobs

Oh no my lego island cd :'(

SynchronusE

@volvo09 not stopping before ejecting sounds like a lack of power to reverse the spindle

23 More Replies...

Mattf14

6y↑719

Apple wasn't the first to get rid of the headphone jack, computer disk drives were.

DoomFinger511

@Jooze Mane What is necroposting?

DoomFinger511

@geo58impala The benefit back then was most PC's only had the 3.5mm jack in the back for the speakers and not all speakers had separate 3.5mm port built in. So the CD drive gave you a 2nd port with easy access in the front. No need to unplug your speakers to switch in headphones.

johannnes paul

@Alec Ringberg diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick drick !!!

geo58impala

4y↑1

@donkmeister Come on man... 640k is enough for anybody!

donkmeister

@geo58impala Windows 98, nice! The first PC I owned (rather than the ones my parents bought for the family) came with Windows 98 when it was a new OS. First thing I did was fit a 3DFX Voodoo 2 3D (that was the best one of the tiny number of 3D graphics cards available back then and had to be used as an addition to whatever card you used for non-3D applications) so I could play Quake. Some of the other guys in my dorm thought I was mental when I specified it because "no-one needs a 450MHz processor or an 8GB hard-drive... that's way more space than anyone will EVER need!".

25 More Replies...

Keith Maxon

4y↑2

I owned this drive and loved it so much it survived three PC upgrades. I thought it was super quiet and was super reliable. That off-color you mention was by design. Mine always stuck out like a sore thumb. Great video.

Tavo85

6y↑1

I'm amazed with such technology. Thanks so much for your work, LGR!

Tobias Stamenkovic

Wow, good job Kenwood! Thats genuinely impressive, especially since theres no false advertising involved whatsoever.
If you guys ever get back into PC hardware im certainly goina have a close look at your stuff.

Nexfero

6y↑1.1K

I'm surprised Kenwood didn't offer a wood-grain version given their audio history.

kieferonline

"Real walnut veneer" would have been great! I think you sir have a great PC design idea there!

Mehmet Bağcan

@wooo weee pioneer had one model also without the tray. I had it in my 3dfx rig. Great drive!

Jason Bratcher

Let me think about that one...

Stig Rabbid

@Heartwork I remember my dad playing Doom II on our Windows 3.1 PC while listening to cds, and that was exactly how it worked back then.

Derpin Bird

Wood-grain still had a bad aftertaste from the 70s at that point

14 More Replies...

The EpicSlayer7 SSS

5y↑1

wow, that is actually awesome! i wonder if that sort of technology made it to DVD and BlueRay! (if they crank up the RPM to near limit but with a safe leeway, then use that multiple Laser technique on a BlueRay, that would throw GBs by the tons!)

Wim Zandstra

Great video again! I remember those drives hitting the market. They never became very populair (in holland). That 56x (cheap) drives indeed destroyed a lot of cdroms back in the days, but that also applies for a particular batch of Aopen 52x drives :)

eagersnake

4y↑8

Wow, I had totally forgotten that at one time I cared how fast my CD-ROM drive was.

Orbit_be

Great to see this drive back. I've had one in my system for years, next to a plextor cd writer and a pioneer dvd reader, forming the holy trinity of optical drives. Can't recall where exaclty I got it from as I'm pretty sure it was a few years after release and for a bottom price.

Let's Make Money

5y↑53

Only the brave have that 56x spinning up at face hieght..........
This is an epic episode man.

zOMGREI

4y↑1

@rfvtgbzhn 52x was generally safe, but a lot of early CD-Rs weren't manufactured particularly well and could still pop in a 52x.

rfvtgbzhn

4y↑2

@zOMGREI I always thought that 52x drives where save. I mean they had 54x 56x and I believe even 60x drives but they where abandoned after a rather short time because of the frequent CD failures and the manufacturers got back to 52 so I thought that they reverted to a safe speed.

zOMGREI

4y↑5

I had a CD-R fail in just a 52x drive in an old compaq way back in the day. It ended up blowing the faceplate on the tray off in two pieces and left me with a nice cut on my shin. Thankfully other than that, all the disc shrapnel and foil confetti from the CD-R managed to stay contained in the drive itself. I'd have probably needed stitches and a new PC if it had been one of those 56x drives instead.

Travis Parker

I had one of those. It performed as advertised, reading very fast for the time without spinning the disc insanely fast... until something went wrong with (I suspect) that fancy multi-beam laser. It got slower and slower and was constantly reseeking. Only lasted a couple of years.

BlendPiNexus

man, i love watching your vids. you've introduced me to the world of old hardware in a way that get's my mind running. i've got some ide drives from a computer that i had gutted and i found a pretty little gem, an internal zip 100 drive that i believe came out of an apple computer. there is also the floppy drive and i believe the optical drive was dvd. i'll have to go looking through my boxes to find it but man that was cool to have found and even know about

EZG

5y↑15

It is a very impressive cd drive, but it also cost 8 times more then a standard 56x.

Compatibility and accuracy trumps speed cause after all, gotta burn those cough linux iso cough all the time.

itsmezed

Back when I worked retail, I remember a customer coming into replace the CD drive (which was a 52 or 56x) in their PC. The reason was a CD 'exploded' while in the drive, actually denting the metal housing in a bunch of spots. My guess is that the disc was imbalnced for some reason, which caused it to wobble violently at an absurd RPM rate until the plastic gave out. One of the strangest things I've ever seen with an optical drive, and what makes me miss that Kenwood drive.

MS Thalamus

I bought one of these when they were new and I loved how quiet it was! It now lives in my P-166 retro gaming rig. That it can't read most home-burned media is a real problem, because as my old discs wear out, I prefer to use backups. The only media I've found that it will reliably read are the white-labelled Memorex 1x-4x CD-R and CD-RWs. Even the silver-labelled type with the same brand and specs are unreadable to it! The white labelled ones are becoming harder and harder to find. Over time, the drive will sadly become unusable because of this. :(

Nicholas Galliart

I remember selling/ installing these when I worked at CompUSA. We had a salesman that would talk customers into adding one to their computer purchases almost each week.

johnnybikesalot

I do professional CD ripping and I would love to get my hands on a dozen of these if you could still get them brand new.... and ideally SATA.

Also of note, I have had a few 56X drives before. All of them operated in 48X mode unless you would do some kind of switching to get it to operate in 56X mode. That may have been an issue here, causing the slower drive to report results even slower.

Also I've ripped probably a hundred thousand CDs doing this side business, and I have had only two CDs explode inside the CD ROM drives. So it can happen but it is rare. I don't recall what kind of drive they exploded in. But both CDs were from the same collection, so I suspect they discs were pre-weakened, perhaps by being left out in the sun too long.

Daniel Ribas Tandeitnik

6y↑150

I had a CD (Worms Armageddon game) that "blown up" inside the drive back in the days. It was so bizarre, I was playing the game when suddenly I heard this loud BANG sound and the game froze. I thought it was a bullet that went through the window (it's possible here in Rio de Janeiro), but when I look at the CD drive it was half open and inside laid pieces of the CD. It was probably the game that I played the most back then.

Jasper van de Meeberg

hey you' re the guy from cidade de deus? :P

Shaun Clarke

Shame you weren't playing Mission Impossible... This disc will self destruct in 30 seconds...

sabata414

I broke a copy of Bugs Bunny: Lost in Time for PC, putting it in the wrong drive once. I couldn't tell you what the max speed was for the drive.

Shaina Shortcake

Daniel Ribas Tandeitnik did the drive work after?

10 More Replies...

Spider Mcgavenport

6y↑1

impressive results! thank you LGR for this awesome review.

zor gatron

I had one of these!!! Super fast! Combined with some kind of Creative Labs card of some sort, which did hardware mp3 encoding acceleration, this setup was able to rip a full CD to MP3 in just few minutes!

Unfornatunately, it was short lived. I later learned that the custom ASICs used in these drives ran a little hot, and this reduced their lie dramatically. A real shame really.

Mattia_98

Wow, this drive is so fast, I would actually hook this up to a modern PC!

William M

I used to have one of these drives myself - I used it for ripping audio CDs among other things (so I could listen to them in WinAmp) and it worked reasonably well. Unfortunately the PSU had a hiccup and fried it. It then went into storage at my parents' place along with all my other old computer parts and I never saw it again.

Shuyler Mample

I had one of these back in the day. I can attest for it's performance was sweet.... At first. It seemed to degrade over time and if the disc was scratched at all, forget it.

Chris Katko

I'm blown away by the amount of reverence you have for stuff that I just have thrown in junk boxes. Never change. (I can see the beauty in a C64, but you can find it ... in a CD rom drive people bought with a $30 rebate from Circuit City.)

Chris Gill

I've got one of these drives in my "repository" of old parts. It was expensive, but it worked perfectly.

readhead12 readhead12

I remember those days. I also had video playback problems in games with my cd-rom and found a tool to limit the speed to 2x or 4x and it just worked fine because the drive wasn't constantly throttling.

My old diablo 2 cd-rom hasn't survied thought, it shattered inside one of my cd-roms :(

Chris Bigg

I had this same drive! I bought it at CompUSA after reading promising reviews in PC Magazine. The drive ended up failing after just 1 year when a cd just shattered into a billion pieces inside. I can still remember the sound. A terrible sound that no computer should ever make. Good times.

zulumax1

Wow, I still have 2 of these, one dead one , and one that works part of the time. Heat kills them, and the heat sink paste dries up on the chips located under the bottom cover. If you have a working one you may want to remove the bottom cover and reapply some white heat sink paste to the chips for better heat transfer so it may live longer.

Richard William Johnson

5y↑1

Man I love these old hardware videos, this stuff is legendary

psycold

Would be awesome to see you make a a top 17ish list on your favorite AI of all time in PC games.

Lewis Taylor

6y↑423

Had a copy of C&C generals explode in a 52X drive! The drive heroically contained the shrapnel.

Just Bashing Rc

Ðavз generals is a good game

linglin92

6y↑2

There's still a lot of fans of general anyway(including me),and modding on that engine is still better than ra3 and cc3 I think.cc3 is just fine to me,just need to balance it(storyline still not good and EA change most setting on that),but I think starting from ra3 is a downhill

Andrei-Alexandru Bleorțu

CD shrapnel i am dying😂😂😂😂

Bradley Robbins

the 72x drive used a laser array to read the disk it didn't actually spin at 72x it was about 24x spin rate with the data transfer of a 72x.. actually watch the video people..

Chris Daniels

6y↑1

Man im still playing C&C Red Alert 2 in 2018 true classic. I wish westwood could have continued the series.

38 More Replies...

Rising Shadow

Great content, that Kenwood is darn impressive ! Subbed !

I have a question, though. That 56x drive, I had the exact same model way back when I was little, same front, same writing font, same buttons, everything. Unfortunately I had to throw it away due to it malfunctioning but I was very fond of it. What exact model is it (probably written on top of the drive) ? I know the box says Mad Dog MD-ED56R, but there were countless variations of it. I would like to order one, for old times' sake (would fit very well in the retro PC I'm currently building too). If you could tell me, I'd be very grateful.

Thanks !

Drifter Carbon

Wow! When I get a retro PC again, I'll keep this in mind. It's like the bullet train of CD-ROM drives!

Scipio_Africanus

I had two of these. It used seven (virtual) lasers and ran pretty close to 72x across the entire disc. The second one eventually gave up the ghost about two years after the first. :( I didn't experience too many problems with them and was happy with them.

Firewireman1

There was a 100x drive for a time too. Might have been made by ECS if I remember right. I worked at BBY Services, now known as Geeksquad back when they were out. Saw many of them come back for repair with shattered disks in them due to the high RPMs. Impressed with this Kenwood actually spinning slower than a standard 56x!

AvengerDK

6y↑120

I had this drive. It was amazing. Best part it was low noise compared to normal cd drives.

Corvette Dude

My external CD-ROM ( 1x speed which i believe was 150kb/s) used a parallel port connector since USB did not exist then. Also required putting the CD-ROM in a case to be read by the drive. It had no write capability in 1992. I had it running with Windows 3.1 on a 386 machine.

Duke Dudeston

6y↑1

@Corvette Dude you saying that reminded me of my first ever CD-RW Drive it was a 16X read 8X write, via USB it was slow as hell over USB 1 on my Win 98 machine, but damn did I love it.

My PC at the time was a cheap nasty catalogue jobby and it didnt have any spare space inside. I soon found out internals where hot glued into place.

Ahh thanks for the throwback.

Corvette Dude

6y↑2

1 had a 1x external cd rom in 1992

wondras

6y↑2

Another satisfied owner of this drive. I was bummed when it died. Still have it somewhere, though...

Detron Phillips

I came here to mention that mine was super quite, but you already had said so. Agree 100%

4 More Replies...

moonzie1980

I had one of those Kenwood True-x drives back in the day. I never had any problems with them and, yes, they lived up to the hype! One of the best drives of the era.

Dizzyikea

DAE mode was also amazing on this drive, ripping games for PS1 was lightning fast, I wanted one so bad I paid way too much and had one imported from the USA to the UK already expensive i then got stung for import duty :(

CalicoSkies

This reminds me of when I bought my first CD burner (or first few of them), and I seem to remember early CD burners would stop burning reliably after about a year and a half or so.

Robert WedgeBob Morin

Which has me wondering which more modern drives caught onto the Kenwood concept of the faster speeds. Having an Pioneer Blu-ray Re-Erasable (or so I think it is), I'm sure those guys must have thought about this.

MaxReckless99

5y↑4

i love your videos and channel. brings back memories i couldn't get back otherwise. please keep this awesome work coming. thank you :)

Christopher Owens

Amazing. I had a Kenwood 72x for several years, and really don’t remember it being any faster. It was double stacked with a CDRW drive (I think it was a Plextor...), maybe it didn’t age well, or maybe my old PC just really handicapped it, but I remember getting to a point of just using the CDRW drive for almost everything.

Jarnail Brar

Quite amazing to see a product that actually performs in real world as advertised on box. It is too bad to see some viewers upset at you for reviewing old tech equipment. Why not? Some people were never able to acquire some of this equipment, but with your reviews are able to see what we missed out on and if it was even worth the price back then. Thanks.

Christopher Owens

I definitely had one of these, and it lasted through several computer builds. Even though I really couldn’t tell that it was any faster than any other CD-ROM. In fact it may still be in a case somewhere...

Horzuhammer

6y↑211

Wow, LGR's been getting a lot of subs lately. The last time I checked it was 500K and now it's close to 1M! I'm sure it wasn't very long time ago.. That's awesome!
BTW: I've had a cd explode in a 56x drive. Not fun, at all.

Jesse Fritz

He has a wonderful channel; no annoying music, his narration is spot on, celebration of old tech is great. Just a nice overall channel.

SiliconBong

6y↑1

+Vision; like RB tells it, someone made a video where they spun a cd up with an electric drill till it simply shattered into high speed shrapnel! (*vaguely recall this same experiment being done with a 78rpm shellac record; !so dangerous!!

TheSergioTurbo

6y↑1

Funnily enough, one of those cereal disk was inside my first computer's CD-ROM drive when the latter failed. The disk didn't disintegrate, but it was still broken in half. I had always blamed the drive for breaking my disk, but now I am suspecting that those disks were a bit too frail for those high-speed drives (i think mine was a 52x). My father had it replaced with a DVD drive (a weird one by Piooner, the DVD-106S. Instead of the tray it had an ejection mechanism like a car radio), and since then no disk has ever exploded in any of the PCs we had.

RBRat3

6y↑2

+Montisaquadeis Spindle hubs back in the day on portable CD players/stereos and PSX/PS2Slim that used the springed ball bearing retention mechanism tend to chip and micro crack the inner radius of a cd so as a PSA dont stick PSX games or vintage CDs into a 52x drive if you wish to back them up they will shatter. It's what happened to one of my CDs that was whored' around in portable CD players...

Montisaquadeis

My cd drive in my desktop broke my Final Fantasy Origins disc when I was trying to rip it for use with emulation. It spit out the smoke and burning smell as well. So yeah not sure what happened there.

16 More Replies...

Chris C

I remember going to a computer fair here in the UK back in the early 2000s and they had a 100x CD Rom drive, but it turned out they cheated by using hard drive space as a buffer. I figured this would be a similar deal, impressive they managed to get a true 72 speed drive.

liquidalloy

Kenwood was and still is my favorite since the early 90's. My stereo receiver from 1994 is still being used in 2020. I never turn it off and it has so much power.

Ronnie Pirtle Jr

4y↑1

Sometimes depending on the motherboard, having it as the primary or the secondary can make a difference on speed even with the proper Jumper in the back and all that. Maybe it was just the motherboards I had?

Austin Walker

I had one of these. I remember thinking it looked really cool next to the Soundblaster Audigy input bay thingy I had at the time. LGR is awesome!

Graham

I had one of these and it was awesome. as someone else said, the front panel isn't yellowed, it came that color. Also the sound of the tray opening and closing is normal, i'm guessing they used some heavy duty servos. as you saw, the performance of that drive put everything else to shame. Kenwood really outdid themselves with this one.

kiloohmcom

fantastic tech and fantastic review, thank you!

Cole Thornton

This is a great series. Brings back a lot of gaming memories

Chupa Thingy

that 56x drive reminds me of when recordable CD's first came out. I bought a blank disc thinking that my dad's computer could handle it. It couldn't. I put it in the drive, and it began spinning up to a speed I've never heard before. It just kept going faster and faster. I freaked out and hit the eject button. The disc had been spinning so fast that it was still spinning in the tray as the drive opened. It shot out of the drive and onto the floor where it continued to spin for a second or two.

0mongo0

6y↑17

A lot of 52x - 56x CD-ROM drives require you to hold down the eject button for a second or two when you put a CD in to allow them to run at full speed. They will usually only run at 48x if you don't. This was because at speeds faster than 48x, cheap or damaged CDs (or even good ones sometimes) had a rather unfortunate tendency to explode.

Don H

This video was awesome.. back in memory lane! Good job. Never seen Windows 98 work so fast by the way!

German_MDS

I remember back in the day, we used to doubt about that being a real "Kenwood". Since most drives came in those generic bags. Nice piece of history!

Trav D.

4y↑1

I remember seeing the early triple spin cd roms in late 94 and thinking wow 😳

Qui9

The 52× one I had was awesome, but I learned it wasn't a good idea to use the higher speeds on cheap discs, because they wouldn't be read reliably on some players. Otherwise it was a pretty fast burner!

Tom Hardware

I remember my first CD burner when they came out in about 1998. plextor ultraplex and Ricoh cd rom all scsi. The car drive itself was about 400 dollars even with my computer city discount.I could burn cd to cd without any buffer underrun or pops and clicks in audio.

Rogelio Velazquez

As mentioned before by others I can testify that those drives were speed demons but they only lasted for a few weeks, and at least 12 of those passed by my systems so it wasn't just a faulty unit , Plextor were the cream of the crop back then until they started making IDE units, perhaps a little slower but always reliable with error correction and durability had no comparison.

Blueneko Cat

I had a SCSI version of this drive, it was able to read cds with damage to the plastic side, Good times!

Wildland Explorer

Oh man. I had one of those 56X drives. A slightly out of round CD exploded into pieces once after I inserted the disk and it started spinning up.

Novaks47

6y↑15

Man, you keep pulling out tech I used to have! I remember having that exact model. Ah, nostalgia...

I'll have to check my storage unit, but I'm fairly certain I still have it.

Pedro Gongora

I remember the 100x, announced as the fastest, after I read about the broken CDs inside the unit, it seems that the limit is 56x

EXPERIMENTONGOD

Wow that drive is truly impressive. I had a Sony CRX230AD (52x read and write), burning a full CD in a couple of minutes was amazing.

lyzarde

Hey I had one of these bad boys. It worked great for me of course that was way too many years ago. I still left my slot load Pioneer installed simply because it was super cool at the time, even at 6x.

Jordan Sugarman

I had a 52x True-X drive. It performed beautifully right up until the time when game publishers started implementing copy protection that relied on reading badly formed sectors on the disc. The Kenwood drives were famously bad at this. I think they eventually patched the firmware to fix it (as they did with the FMV issues on D2), but it was no end of headaches for a while before that, and this was back at a time when people didn't exactly go looking for firmware updates.

wildbilltexas

6y↑41

I remember that True-X drives got a lot of hype, were expensive, and had reports on forums of drives dying after a couple of months. And then the OEM market was flooded in the early 2000's with affordable CD-R burners and True-X drives were quickly forgotten. I dont know if Kenwood ever made a True-X CD-R burner. Keep up the awesome demonstrations and bringing back memories.

kingneutron1

@WILLIS CURRY Oooooh, I remember Smart and Friendly, was disappointed when they went out of business :(
IIRC I had one of those drives for a while, really liked it

WILLIS CURRY

5y↑2

$229 Smart & Friendly 4x4x24X From Computer Renaissance.

Isoquant

I remember being intrigued by this unit and its claimed transfer rates that stretched credulity. I ended up going with the premium plexwriter at the time based on its reputation for rock-solid reliability, but here I am in 2019 just learning that the kenwood actually delivered as promised, and I am amazed!

Shizon84

I remember dial up modems were like that, when I started using AOL internet at home, my dial up modem was tested as 56 k, but I never really actually attained that speed, I would usually get something like 16.8k or 21.6k, maybe up to 26k

Adrian Koch

That Kenwood CD-ROM was pretty amazing back in the day. I got one of them, after a disk shattered in my old CD-ROM & blew out the tray :-o

A B

I had one of these. I bought into the hype of this and the results were less than stellar.

John Allen

6y↑14

I honestly thought it was going to fall well below the hype and maybe hit average speeds, but wow!

ugzz

This drive is amazing! I bet it would still read Taiyo Yuden cdrs, those things read just fine in EVERYTHING, so of course, they are all i ever used :)

Keith Flick

so happy i found this channel. pure retro goodness

arcticfox04

I had this drive it was amazing. Also a sweet Kenwood car audio setup.

Telly Joossens

When these came out I worked for a large computer parts supplier and I can tell you their technology wasn’t 100% yet. Also I remember alot of these drives started malfunctioning quickly when new or had hardware defects when arriving from the factory. Kind of shame that a company like Kenwood brought out a product lacking quality control for the price they asked. You’re lucky to own one of the survivors 😉

Patrick Dewey

I wonder if part of the Diablo 2 install speed was limited more by the speed of the drive being written to or the CPU speed than the CD-ROM read speed. Still a pretty good test.

Narissis

We had one of these! It did eventually break down; I don't think they were very reliable. Then again, maybe it just needed a firmware update. But it was every bit as much faster than typical drives as your results suggest.

stonent

When I worked at Fry's and a small computer store (both in the late 90s) we used to sell "100x" drives. They were actually 24x drives, but you installed some kind of included caching program that allocated a certain amount of RAM to buffer the drive. I do not recall it being noticable but I didn't run benchmarks either. Might be something to look for in a future oddware episode.

citb

i remember those when i build my first own pc in 99, i wanted one, i always thought it had 7 lasers, in the end i opted for a pioneer dvd slot in and a 10x cdrw burner, man i could write a cd in under 10 minutes and i had to burn hunderts of cd`s for all my friends. nice video again, thx for the flashbacks in time.

Tobias Böhse

6y↑5

Best CD-Drive i had was an ASUS 52x. Buffer and Correction was INSANE. it played even deadly scratch Discs.

Best Burner was a Plextor, as usual

RushTest 4Echo

Had both of these in my Compaq back in the day. Sadly my True-X drive bit the dust after a year or two. I got the 56x drive figuring it would be nearly as fast. Instead, the 56x drive terrified me with the spinning up. Sounded like a jet engine and I really thought my CD's would explode inside the drive. Transfer rates sucked too.

Matthew Cole

I don't know how you did it, but you made me very impressed at how fast this old drive reads. Cool video!

Daniel Witzel

Would be crazy to see this tech on DVD and Bluray. grant it it would have issues with copy protection, but data discs would have phenomenal transfer rates.

TCPUDPATM PORTS

A) It hurt a little to see D2 on here... wow, time flies.
B) I once had my play cd of D2 EXPLODE in a mad dog 56x drive. Over time a small crack appeared and it absolutely shattered to bits (and dust) inside the drive. Good times...

Load More Comments...

More Comments

just now