Unitiserve vibrating

Posted by: The Meerkat on 15 April 2012

Has anyone experienced this?

When ripping CDs on the Unitiserve, you obviously get the normal ripping sound, but occasionally there is quite a loud vibrating noise, to the point where I had to abort the rip, and re insert the CD. Also, very occasionally, and I say very occasionally, when I push the disc in, it pops back out immediately. Perhaps I am inserting the disc too hard. Also, some discs could be slightly warped. 

Posted on: 15 April 2012 by Rich

Hi-- This happened to mine also to the point where it ultimately swallowed the cd and even the manual eject wouldnt release it---I currently have it off for repair under warranty!

Rich

Posted on: 15 April 2012 by NickAW
This also happens with my US very occasionally but the rip seems fine and the CD self-ejects normally.  Subsequent CDs rip without problem.  It has happened five or six times in over a thousand rips. I wonder whether CDs that stray from the Redbook physical parameters (too thick, too thin, eccentric hole, got twigs in etc) become unstable when being ripped at high speed and vibrate/oscillate in the US??

Nick
Posted on: 15 April 2012 by The Meerkat

I think that you are right Nick. I guess if you think about it, CDs are made all over the world in different factories. Just hope mine doesn't go down the road that Rich's US did! I have only had it three days.

 

David

Posted on: 15 April 2012 by The Meerkat

Hi Rich

 

Had you had the US long before it did that to your CD?

 

David

Posted on: 15 April 2012 by Prubast

Exactly the same experience as Nick - the vibration seems to be correlated to 2 or three particular CDs so I suspect that Nick's assumption for the cause may also be correct.

 

David - I noticed this issue on my day of purchase (hopefully its nothing to worry about!)

Posted on: 15 April 2012 by garyi

At the end of the day the drives in these things are mass produced for computers. iMacs use something similar and the same vibrating occurs with slight warped cds.

Posted on: 15 April 2012 by The Meerkat

Hi Probast

 

Phew, so pleased it's not just mine! On some rips you, you hardly know it's doing it, and on others it's like a cement mixer...well not quite!! 

Posted on: 15 April 2012 by The Meerkat

I meant to ask...Do most people leave the US switched on all the time? As I don't think it has a standby mode. The reason that I ask, is that it doesn't allow the NAS to go to standby mode, even though it is enabled on the NAS. I leave my Supernait on all the time, but not sure if this idea applies to the US.

 

David

Posted on: 15 April 2012 by Rich

Hi David--- had mine about 4 months -- ripped about 300 cds with no problems-- the vibrations and also mechanism noises started up and got worse to where I am now . I kept it on all the time, so maybe I loaded a rogue CD??- not sure.

Anyways-- hopefully you wont get to the point I am where the only option was a return

Not a common fault judging by other posts

Good luck!

Rich

Posted on: 15 April 2012 by The Meerkat

Thanks Rich

Posted on: 15 April 2012 by Bart

My UnitiServe, for some percentage of the rips, gets roaring relatively loudly.  But I've heard drives on Macs and PC's do this too, so I just chalk it up to something that some drives do under some conditions -- not sure whether it's a warped disc or what.

 

And I do leave mine on pretty much all the time day to day.  If I know I'm going away for a few days I may shut it down via the front face logo.

Posted on: 16 April 2012 by The Meerkat

Cheers Bart

 

I'm pleased that my machine is doing what a lot of the others appear to be doing. Like most people, I think it is some of the discs that make it do that.

 

David