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[Lancery]

I received my drive from Billy today. Supper fast response to my emails and fast shipping. I mounted the drive up in the OWC case (mounting bracket trick worked great), and it worked perfectly on my first go. Now I need more to speed things up.

Can you please elaborate? I tried fitting a 212 (thanks Billy!) into the OWC case but the screw holes don't seem to line up, and the cable orientation seems upside down (this part is probably not a big deal). Any tips would be appreciated!


This shows the screw holes not lining up


This shows I have already pushed the drive as far in as I can

[Billycar11]

This shows I have already pushed the drive as far in as I can

you have to bend the tabs or slot them with a Dremel
take out the motherboard of the case if you are going to slot them

[Lancery]

This shows I have already pushed the drive as far in as I can

you have to bend the tabs or slot them with a Dremel
take out the motherboard of the case if you are going to slot them

Thanks. Does the Vantec NexStar DX2 require these modifications too? It looks like it can accommodate longer drives. I might still be able to return the OWC drive and get the Vantec DX2. Or, are there some other issue(s) with the Vantec DX2?

• Vantec NexStar DX2: Design for 5.25" Blu-Ray/CD/DVD drive; Fit Optical Drive 185mm in Depth

• OWC Mercury Pro: Supports 5.25" SATA I/II optical drives (all CD & DVD devices and Blu-ray drives 6.77 inches (17.2 cm)) and shorter

[Billycar11]

This shows I have already pushed the drive as far in as I can

you have to bend the tabs or slot them with a Dremel
take out the motherboard of the case if you are going to slot them

Thanks. Does the Vantec NexStar DX2 require these modifications too? It looks like it can accommodate longer drives. I might still be able to return the OWC drive and get the Vantec DX2. Or, are there some other issue(s) with the Vantec DX2?

• Vantec NexStar DX2: Design for 5.25" Blu-Ray/CD/DVD drive; Fit Optical Drive 185mm in Depth

• OWC Mercury Pro: Supports 5.25" SATA I/II optical drives (all CD & DVD devices and Blu-ray drives 6.77 inches (17.2 cm)) and shorter

See first page about vantecs if you get one it will void your warranty with me
I have had far to much trouble with them

[hoth80]

Drive from Billy work perfectly. Thank you Billy.

[Billycar11]

Billy does flash firmware break CD rip? No CD rip without error on Pioneer drive. Rip perfect on old drive. Offset is set. Firmware change offset?

I tested a few months back and had no issues.
There is a known bug on some amd chipsets that makes ripping CDs impossible using direct sata those users had to use them usb for it to work

[hoth80]

I was mistake. Everything is good. Thank you Billy.

[Billycar11]

Thanks for reviews enjoy the drive

[dragonkid832]

Yes there is a known issue with any of the Prom21 based chipsets (B650/X670/X670E/B850/X870/X870E) with Exact Audio Copy; other rippers might/will be affected. I came across this issue while upgrading my desktop back in December. Essentially, if your board's SATA ports are attached to the the main chipset (or secondary if you have an E board), secure mode does not work and will just sit there at 0.0-0.3x speed and fill its error correction meter, even after setting your drive parameters/offset and testing its read capabilities. Other modes such as Fast mode/Paranoid rip but are inaccurate. I searched every where for a solution to this issue; couldn't find anything until I found a old forum thread in the EAC IO group message boards that their drive worked in an old machine but not in their new AM5 based system. Hopefully, the issue can be fixed on the software side as opposed to requiring a chipset firmware change through a BIOS update or what have you.

Good news is that externals work without issue and any PCIe add in cards that have other SATA controllers such as ASM1061 work without issue. Other controllers will probably work as well. Also, some AMD boards have secondary controllers on them that supply additional SATA ports (i.e AsRock X870E Nova, X870 Riptide, X670E Godlike, X670E ACE etc) should all work. I have personally tested the X870E Nova and it works flawlessly; connectively my X870E Taichi does NOT even though of the 6 ports: Two are on Chipset 1 and four are attached to Chipset 2. My Asus X870 TUF board does not work either.

MKV isn't affected by this issue: I was able to rip with the drives Billy supplied perfectly on all my boards, regardless of controller.

The only thing I do not get about the issue is out of 7 drives I tried, my old internal Pioneer DVR-218L from October of 2009 was the only internal drive that EAC did not have an issue with, regardless of the SATA controller, but any bluray internal, Pioneer or Lite-On, displayed the same behavior as noted above.

[hoth80]

I tested a few months back and had no issues.
There is a known bug on some amd chipsets that makes ripping CDs impossible using direct sata those users had to use them usb for it to work

Apology. Wrong configuration of rip software. Rip is correct now. C2 error detection off is correct.

So let's change these posts to a nice good review about the pioneer you got from me

Done. Thank you Billy.

[JPL1984]

Reached out via email about a remote flash

[Lancery]

you have to bend the tabs or slot them with a Dremel
take out the motherboard of the case if you are going to slot them

Thanks. Does the Vantec NexStar DX2 require these modifications too? It looks like it can accommodate longer drives. I might still be able to return the OWC drive and get the Vantec DX2. Or, are there some other issue(s) with the Vantec DX2?

• Vantec NexStar DX2: Design for 5.25" Blu-Ray/CD/DVD drive; Fit Optical Drive 185mm in Depth

• OWC Mercury Pro: Supports 5.25" SATA I/II optical drives (all CD & DVD devices and Blu-ray drives 6.77 inches (17.2 cm)) and shorter

See first page about vantecs if you get one it will void your warranty with me
I have had far to much trouble with them

Got some help from Billy via email. Able to get one screw lined up and secured. Thanks Billy for the pointers. I am now able to use the 212 drive from Billy with DVDs, Blu-rays, and UHD Blu-rays successfully. Thanks!

[Konten]

you have to bend the tabs or slot them with a Dremel
take out the motherboard of the case if you are going to slot them

Thanks. Does the Vantec NexStar DX2 require these modifications too? It looks like it can accommodate longer drives. I might still be able to return the OWC drive and get the Vantec DX2. Or, are there some other issue(s) with the Vantec DX2?

• Vantec NexStar DX2: Design for 5.25" Blu-Ray/CD/DVD drive; Fit Optical Drive 185mm in Depth

• OWC Mercury Pro: Supports 5.25" SATA I/II optical drives (all CD & DVD devices and Blu-ray drives 6.77 inches (17.2 cm)) and shorter

See first page about vantecs if you get one it will void your warranty with me
I have had far to much trouble with them

Hi Billy, what kind of problems have you had with the Vantec NexStar DX2? I'm currently using them and wondering if I should change them to OWC's...

[Billycar11]

I'm currently using them and wondering if I should change them to OWC's...

PMed you

[Konten]

I'm currently using them and wondering if I should change them to OWC's...

PMed you

Thanks, Billy!!