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Forgot to mention if there is dust in the system an air compressor or canned air should be used to clean it out. Canned air is nice because it comes with a long tube for use to clean out hard to reach places, of which there are a lot in a computer. 
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Forgot to mention if there is dust in the system an air compressor or canned air should be used to clean it out. Canned air is nice because it comes with a long tube for use to clean out hard to reach places, of which there are a lot in a computer.

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Hi Experts<br />
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I have a Plextor 708A CD/DVD R/W drive that's been backing up office data onto DVD every day for three years now. Laterly, it has developed a problem whereby it won't recognize what's in the drive. The activity light just winks and winks. Sometimes it'll find the disk in half an hour, sometimes an hour, sometimes never. On cleaning the drive with a Memorex DVD drive-cleaning DVD, the drive works fine again for a week or two, and then develops the fault again.<br />
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Is it time for a new drive? Or does it just need cleaning?
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Hi Experts

I have a Plextor 708A CD/DVD R/W drive that's been backing up office data onto DVD every day for three years now. Laterly, it has developed a problem whereby it won't recognize what's in the drive. The activity light just winks and winks. Sometimes it'll find the disk in half an hour, sometimes an hour, sometimes never. On cleaning the drive with a Memorex DVD drive-cleaning DVD, the drive works fine again for a week or two, and then develops the fault again.

Is it time for a new drive? Or does it just need cleaning?

Is it time to buy a new drive?

Computer data storage, often called storage or memory, is a technology consisting of computer components and recording media used to retain digital data. In addition to local storage devices like CD and DVD readers, hard drives and flash drives, solid state drives can hold enormous amounts of data in a very small device. Cloud services and other new forms of remote storage also add to the capacity of devices and their ability to access more data without building additional data storage into a device.