Sony CRX140E/CH2 8x4x32 Internal EIDE CDRW Drive

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Summary: Good inexpensive drive.
Review: Drive has always worked fine for me. No coasters but would be better if it had buffer under-run prevention. Works in all OSes. Best with Roxio Easy CD or Nero. Not the fastest drive but pretty fast. The drive is quite dependable.

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Summary: Good inexpensive drive.
Review: Drive has always worked fine for me. No coasters but would be better if it had buffer under-run prevention. Works in all OSes. Best with Roxio Easy CD or Nero. Not the fastest drive but pretty fast. The drive is quite dependable.

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Summary: electronic fan is a dope1
Review: eLECTRONIC FAN.....IF YOU ARE GOING TO WRITE A BOGUS REVIEW, KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT.....DOPE!

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Summary: Do NOT buy this drive!
Review: First off, I bought this cd-r from best buy. I brought it home, installed it, and burned 3 perfect cd's. The next day i burned another and it had some errors at the end and did not burn some data. Fine, they can't all be perfect can they? So i tried to burn another audio cd on another cd-r and noticed the drive started to make a high pitch squeeling sound when reading. Needless to say the drive hasn't worked since then. I've tried reinstalling the hardware and software and trying many combinations of different data and cd-r's with no good results. The squeeling sound has also gotten louder so I'm taking it back and getting a phillips-magnavox with the same specs.

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Summary: What a fat log of good these reviews are
Review: For a person who is looking to buy one these, all this back bitting is actually no help at all, 0/10 for product review usefulness.

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Summary: Software Doesn't Work - Sony won't respond to email
Review: I am sorry I got this item. The software doesn't work. (It won't burn 80 minute CD's) I downloaded the new version of the software and new drivers - they still didn't work but they did almost wreck my computer. I emailed Sony - No Response. So now I have to spend another hundred bucks on software that works (Adaptec), but I've heard even that software doesn't like this burned, so you have to get 'special' files from Adeptec to make it work.

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Summary: Love AND Hate this drive!
Review: I bought mine over a year ago. For the first 13 months it was a very good drive. (Guess what... the warranty is 12 months!) I was usually unsuccessful in burning at 8x unless copying a cd. Most often I settled for 4x burning. It worked fine with very few coasters. Now enter the problem... At 13 months it started causing POST failures during bootup. BIOS will only detect about half of the time. The other half of the time I get "Invalid IDE device" messages. When it detects OK, the drive still works fine. After much trouble-shooting, swapping IDE controllers, slaves, masters, etc, and contacting SONY tech support, it became very obvious that this drive is my problem. I still have the drive installed and I'm still using it, however I'm now looking for a replacement. Booting 2-3 times can't be good for the rest of my components, so it's time to make a change. Would I buy another SONY??? Maybe... maybe not.

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Summary: Great product at a Great price
Review: I bought this burner about a year ago and it's still cranking out CD's like a charm. The software is pretty bad until you go to their site and download the update, but afterwords it was great. Unlike some other software, Sony CD extreme is reliable and easy to use. The users that had a problem with hardware either don't know how to use their PC properly or didn't check to see if their PC was compatible. I've burned about 70 CD's so far with no problems unless I interrupted the burning process by bumping the PC. The software also allows you to set a pre-gap before each song, which other software does not. I will definately continue buying sony PC products.

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Summary: A great burner
Review: I bought this burner about a year ago and it's still cranking out CD's like a charm. The software is pretty bad until you go to their site and download the update, but afterwords it was great. Unlike some other software, Sony CD extreme is reliable and easy to use. The users that had a problem with hardware either don't know how to use their PC properly or didn't check to see if their PC was compatible. I've burned about 70 CD's so far with no problems unless I interrupted the burning process by bumping the PC. The software also allows you to set a pre-gap before each song, which other software does not. I will definately continue buying sony PC products.

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Summary: Great burner for the price . . .
Review: I bought this burner because of the price. It was affordable without breaking my bank book. It has an average speed capability. I am not constantly burning CDs, so why do I need to waste money to get something that burns 5 minutes faster. Anyway, it took me about 10 minutes to install the hardware and about ten more minutes to install the software. The software, in my opinion, is easy to use if you have ever touched any sort of programming involving simplified windows point and click. Heck, my girlfriend could figure out how to use it the first time she ever touched it. I have not had any problems at all. I have a Compaq Presario, a very low-brow PC and it handled the application of hardware and software seamlessly. It was ridiculously easy to install(for an internal drive). I love the software. I have burned over 50 CD-R's and about 15 CD-RW's and have had no problem. It is quick, efficient and reliable. This was a very good buy. I think anyone who is having problems either does not grasp or have the knowledge of hardware installation. Maybe try reading the directions.