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Summary: It may be disappointing
Review: I purchased it about 3 months ago to replace my Iomega Predator 48x USB2. about a month after I bought I started having freezing problems in the middle of burning so I emailed the Manufacture and took them 2 weeks to get back to me, (I try to call their toll free # but never had more than 30 min to wait for someone to answer) and their answer was to try the burner on a different computer I don't know the situation of other people but I do not have extra computer laying around my house, so I asked a friend and got the same problems . To this day I have resolved the frizzing by selecting the speed and not setting it at more than 32x which is well bellow the rated speed, after emailing them again about my finding they replied that some times it happens with different media that is not recommended for the drive, "Memorex and Sony media is not recommended. Verbatim seem to work well, though.", to which I tried and didn't solve anything. It was very upsetting having spend so much time on something and have come up empty handed and not just that but have paid over 120 for a drive that burns at 32x. which brings mee too another issue that even though this drive its rated for 52x I never saw it burned at that speed, I have tried different software(Easy CD Creator, even the Plextor Tools that come with the burner, and others), also used different media and no difference. I have a Gateway P3 1000 computer running Windows XP Pro and my friend has a Dell P4 running windows XP Home. My recommendation to you is that if customer care is important to you then shop for a different brand.
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Summary: Perfect for Exact Audio Copies
Review: This drive is amazingly accurate. I selected it to rip a thousand CDs at full resolution based on the numerous positive reviews for Plextor drives on sites devoted to exact audio copying. What I learned along the way in upgrading from my previous drive (Sony OEM of Lite-On) is that audio CDs encode bits differently than CD-ROMs, and that not all CD players are created equally in terms of their ability to read the exact bits from audio CDs. Using a freeware (well, technically postcardware, the author would appreciate a postcard) program called Exact Audio Copy, or EAC, it is possible to assess how accurately an audio track is being read from CD. The audio CD standard allows for a fair degree of error-correction in the CDs, as well as fairly substantial error-correction via interpolation; CD players vary in their accuracy at reading and in their error-correction software. EAC is particularly good in taking multiple passes over the CD and verifying segments in which the reads disagree. EAC also controls disk read speed and looks up CD titles in a free CD database to structure the way in which tracks are stored to disk. The bottom line is that this Plextor provides 100.0 percent accurate copies (according to EAC) on 9 out of 10 tracks, with the remaining track usually scoring a 99.9 or 99.8. My previous CD-RW was scoring 97.0 comparitively. I should note that this is at roughly an 8-10X speed multiplier, not at the 52X at which this drive is rated for super-fast CD-ROM reading and writing. This is the drive you want to make exact audio copies. It's also surprisingly quiet and smooth.
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