20x DVD @ Frys (N.Cal) $30

[Shilood]

Has anyone opened up a Phillips 20x internal DVD +-RW drive? Frys (Sacramento area anyway) has them for $49.99 and a $20 mail-in rebate.

How easy to extract the diode?

Open or closed can type?

Worth it over the GB Sendiode? Bobdiode?


Just asking questions no one probably yet has answers to.

 

[a_pyro_is]

Prob. an open can.
Prob. hard to get one out that'll still work.
Prob. very worth it if you can make a burner out of it. ;D