Apparently most of the money spent in making End Game went to pay the stars. Starring: Cuba Gooding Jr., Angie Harmon, James Woods and Anne Archer I've seen some bad political thrillers, but End Game goes beyond bad and well over the line into offensive 5/10. Film Score: Kenneth Burgomaster Cinematography: Chuck Cohen. End Game (2006) Director: Andy Cheng Writers: Andy Cheng & J.C. as Secret Service agent Alex Thomas, who is shot in the hand while unsuccessfully trying to protect the President (Jack Scalia) from an assassin's bullet.Later, with the help of a persistent newspaper reporter named Kate Crawford (Angie Harmon), he uncovers a vast conspiracy behind what.
You can see the various series and their firmwares at You can try asking the seller what series it is or ask them for a picture of the label.Home End game (2006 explained) End Game (2006 film) - WikipediĮnd Game is a 2006 American action film written and directed by Andy Cheng, and starring Cuba Gooding Jr. There is for example an older iHAS124 W, that is accurate but much slower. But I don't know if all iHAS124-14 are F or not. It is an OEM model, so no cables, manual, etc. TrainerI had good luck with the LiteOn iHAS124-14 F.
In the meantime the top 3 sellers on Amazon areġ Asus 24x DVD-RW Serial-ATA Internal OEM Optical Drive DRW-24B1ST (Black)Ģ Lite-On 24X SATA Internal DVD+/-RW Drive Optical Drive IHAS124-14ģ LG Internal 24x Super Multi with M-DISC Support DVD Burner (GH24NSC0B) Bundle with Nero 12 Essentials Burning Software + Cable Kitĭoes anyone have any experience/feedback on any of these suspects? Should I hold out hope for a 2018 drive list? One of my beloved drives finally failed this week :-( I don't believe buying an old worn out high performance drive on Ebay is not going to get you much better results than a new nearly identical performance drive. Optical drives are like most things - they are going to get worse as they get older. Not bad, but it does increase the number of corrective rips.
So if you rip 50 CDs with about 10 songs per CD = 500 songs, you are likely to get 2-3 bad song rips per 50 CD stack. You would think this is not significant, except this means 1 out of 200 **songs**, if I understand the chart data correctly. If I average the performance of the last 4 bottom drives and compare to the average of the top 4 drives, the difference is about 0.5%. Drives that start out at the top of the list will slowly move down the list over time, and then quicker when the manufacturer stops making them.Īnother point to make is the difference in the top of the list versus the bottom. Unfortunately, all drives will go down this slippery slope, but that is why AccurateRip helps. to start to have a significant effect on the rip quality. The old PX230A Plextor drives are getting long in the tooth, so I would be expecting things like bearing wear, spring weakening, dust and dirt on the optics, etc. This is especially true of mechanical based systems, i.e., a spinning optic drive. A quick comment:Īs the population of a certain model drive ages, the aging effects of wearout will begin to show up. Thanks! - HamI was digging around to find help with my Nimbie setup and saw this post. If not, polish the disk and try again in secure mode. My standard workflow is to do 1 Pass on the PX230A or iHBS212 This results in an accurate rip in 90% of the cases in about 2 minutes. I have both a iHAS124 F and W, I like the F better than W, but the Bluray iHBS212 is usually the best. These are the fastest and most accurate drives I have (among a dozen or so).
Drive: PLEXTOR - CD-R PX-230A (126 users): Submissions: 6591 accurate, 56 inaccurate, 99.1575 % accuracySo if (big if) my understanding is correct in the last two years there are 5 new users of PX-230A but among the 131 (new and old) 230A users they submitted 6957-6591 = 366 new rips of which 118-56 = 62 were inaccurate! Now that seems bonkers, since it implies an accuracy of barely 83% on the new rips!!! What's going on?īTW, the PX230A is still my favorite together with liteon ATAPI iHBS212.