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Summary: Iomega rebrands from several sources
Review: It is true that this CDRW is a Plextor in some cases. I have a Plextor (Plextors have a fan in the rear). Otherwise, rumor is that this drive is now a Sanyo...If you're lucky enough to get a Plextor version, this is one helluva drive. You can get the Plextor for about $X, but the Iomega rebate made this the way to go! That's the real deal.
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Summary: Solid Burner
Review: No problems at all with this burner. Installation took only 15 minutes, and I'm not a computer tech....
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Summary: this is NOT EVEN CLOSE to PLEXTOR quality
Review: Please do not purchase this based on the review of the seriously misinformed person below calling this a plextor. This thing is VERY average and is so far from being PLEXTOR that it's insane. If you want a cheap 16x burner, this is for you. It's philips, and after the philips 2600 burner fiasco with class action lawsuits, I want nothing to do with any philips product!
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Summary: You get what you pay for.
Review: There's a reason that Iomega's stock prices dropped significantly, and it wasn't because of the general Nasdaq crash. Notoriously, Iomega's products lack SEVERELY in quality. A prime example of this is the Zip & Jaz drives, which both had astoundingly high failiure rates for data recovery, making them useless as storage mediums. Both Zip & Jaz had transfer rates so pitifully slow that burning a CD easily became more economic than either choice. So recently, Iomega has plunged into the CD recording market, for reasons unbeknownst to me. Their earlier recorders were snapped up for their low prices and colorful packaging, and soon discovered to be lacking in quality. This particular drive, despite it's 16x recording speed, falls short of quality. The drive produces coasters at an alarming rate, regardless of the software used in conjunction with the actual hardware, in comparison to other burners of its calibre. The drive also has a tendency to come pre-packaged with problems, as several of my colleagues have explained to me. Unless you're a technical wizard or don't mind lots of time on the phone with tech support, don't expect an easy install.
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Summary: Iomega is a Plextor PlexWriter 161040A
Review: This CDRW is exactly the same as the Plextor PlexWriter 161040A (a high-quality burner -you can check the reviews here). Even the BIOS firmware is the same version as Plextor's. I guess Iomega will be passing along the firmware updates from Plextor. Includes the revised Burnproof 2 feature and builtin cooling fan just like the Plextor's. .... No high-speed CDRW blank is provided, only a 20x CDR blank.
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Summary: Burner nughtmare
Review: This thing is a hunk of...! The support was good, but its a hunk of junk. it sounds like it wants to die when it opens and closes. It refused to burn disc to disc with my dell machine because it said my existind drive was not capable of digital audio extraction. Dell said this was BS. Iomega said it was a software issue. Eventually the thing wouldn't even write from the hard drive.
P.S. it wasn't a plextor.
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