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Summary: CS112_TVL2
Review: I bought this drive and started using it as soon as I got it, buyers beware do make sure you have USB 2.0 otherwise buy a cheaper 4x4x4 drive, so i had to buy a usb 2.0 card.
Do get rid of the software and use NERO instead. awesome. wont regret it
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Summary: Great drive non decent software
Review: I bought this drive and started using it as soon as I got it, buyers beware do make sure you have USB 2.0 otherwise buy a cheaper 4x4x4 drive, so i had to buy a usb 2.0 card.
Do get rid of the software and use NERO instead. awesome. wont regret it
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Summary: Amazing Drive but [useless] software
Review: I bought this drive in the US a month or two ago and brought it home to India. This Drive works fine even with my 240 Volts domestic power supply. I burned my first CD using this drive and this one took just three and a half minutes to burn 600 MB of data. WOW!!! THAT's FAST!!!By the way, I bought a USB 2.0 PCI Card and I am getting a full 24X write speed. The software is ... useless. One Star less that perect for this reason. I grabbed a copy of Nero 5.5 and everything works absolutely fine. My suggestion...just buy this one if you want a CDRW drive.
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Summary: Warning Mac OS 9.2 and higher users
Review: I have a Mac running 9.2.1 and found out that the "Hot Burn" software from iomega is NOT compatible with 9.2.1. The iOmega corp. sent me a new firewire burner that was supposed to work with Mac iTunes or CD Burner software, but it does not. Not only that, they sent me the wrong power cord.
DO NOT PURCHASE iOmega CD-RW products if you are using any Mac OS higher than 9.1!
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Summary: Great on 98 with added USB port
Review: I have a user-installed USB 2.0 (didn't even know the difference when I bought the card), and this device plugged right in and worked from the first boot-up. The first burn was at 1.1 speed, but after that it picked up to 2.0. My only puzzler was the system-test feature, which started scanning the Hot Burn CD at worse than a snail's pace. Three hours passed and the test had only gotten 10 percent done then mysteriously kicked out the CD. So I aborted, and the device worked fine anyway. I bought this at a major office-supply chain which was running two mail-in cashback offers.
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Summary: Sleek, fast, noisy drive
Review: I have recently bought Predator 40x24x40 and so far I have made a couple of CDs. Reading other reviews posted here, I have to agree with anyone who complaint about the software, namely, "HOT BURN", that comes witht he product. The software sure is hot and great for burning coasters (4 so far and counting). The only amazing thing about the software is its speed..."Zzzzzzzz". Oh not to mention I had so much fun restarting my Windows numerous times from burning image files on to CDs. Lovely. Anyway, it is a decent writer, noisy but still decent if and only if we ignore the existence of the software. Go Nero.
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Summary: Works flawlessly
Review: I have used Iomega products for seven years now and have never had any problems with their stability, on both PCs and Macs. (Earlier versions of the Zip disk media were another story, if you know what I mean.) The Predator proves itself to be a solid burner with respectable speeds -- if you've got USB 2.0, that is. Without USB 2.0, the Predator achieves speeds of 4x4x6, which according to Iomega is a limit imposed by the slower USB 1.1. On my workhorse Win2k PC with an USB 2.0 adapter card, I'm not sure if I actually get the maximum speed, but I'm happy with being able to create a 60-minute audio CD in about 5 minutes. The sleekly-built Predator installs easily and quickly and, like most new burners, features buffer underrun technology to prevent writing failures. My previous HP external burner was annoyingly sensitive to buffer underrun, and caused half of all my burns to fail even when the authoring software is the only app running. So far I've experienced a less than 10% failure rate on the Predator. Maybe even less than 5%. And I can actually surf many web sites while burning a CD-R, something I couldn't dream of doing with the HP. The Predator is one fine product and actually looks cool, which is not something to be said of most PC peripherals. Please note that this product does not work on Macintoshes. Win98, WinME, Win2k, and WinXP only.
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Summary: Happy with Iomega at last
Review: I must admit I was worried when I ordered this because of past fiascos with Iomega products. But I took the chance and am glad I did. Its great and works on a variety of computers. The only real drawback (and I'm getting nitpicky here) is the size. It is only slightly less than half the size of my laptop! Other than that, I love it and the software bundle. Nice and easy. I'd give it 5 stars, but nothing is perfect.
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Summary: Not Very Durable
Review: I owned the Predator for just over a year. Within weeks of the warranty's expiration, it stopped working. Their online help advised me to try the unit on another PC. One computer I tried says there's no CD in the drive, even though the CD is spinning and the device is going through its motions; another computer spins the CD and seems to be writing data, but after 15 minutes of nothing happening, I gave up. All in all, 13 months' service is not up to my expectations.
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Summary: Not Very Durable
Review: I owned the Predator for just over a year. Within weeks of the warranty's expiration, it stopped working. Their online help advised me to try the unit on another PC. One computer I tried says there's no CD in the drive, even though the CD is spinning and the device is going through its motions; another computer spins the CD and seems to be writing data, but after 15 minutes of nothing happening, I gave up. All in all, 13 months' service is not up to my expectations.
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