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Summary: Excellent Product
Review: I purchased this product to use with my Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop at home. I use Windows 98SE, 128 meg ram. This product works flawlessly. It took less than five minutes to install. Just load the driver first from the included CD, and then follow the instructions to connect it to your computer. The computer recognized it instantly and the installation was done. Truely what Plug and Play should always be! The unit is solidly built, and will take a lot of use. I would not recommend it for someone looking for a unit to carry with them however. It would be too heavy for that. Within 20 minutes I was making both audio and data CDs. (I use Easy CD Creator which is easy to use and will also convert audio to MP3 and then you can burn your MP3's to CD's for a permanent library.) For ease of use and a well made product, I can't recommend this product enough.
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Summary: Flawless Burner
Review: I'm very critical when it comes to reviewing anything I buy. This CD/RW burner - my first - is just fantastic. It was very simple to set up, the software that came with it was decent and did everything I needed it to do. Of course, you can upgrade for an additional cost, but so what. The hardware is relatively unobtrusive, solid, and hums like a sewing machine when burning. Music CD's take from 10-15 mins a piece, which is no biggie. I love it for backing up documents I'm working on. A very lengthy novel I was writing would overwrite on a CD/RW disk instantaneously, as opposed to an A:/ drive floppy backup, which would often take a good 20 seconds or more. I have had absolutely no problems with this drive and I'm working on a Dell laptop set up as a desktop. To be honest, I didn't think I would reach the point where the A:/ floppy would be obviated by a CD rewrite burner, but I'm very close to making that a reality. Love it as an all-around backup of photo folders, My Documents, and all the rest.
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Summary: Wonderful!
Review: It took me a year to find the right burner and I decided to settle with the Plextor. Little did I know that this product was more amazing than I originally thought! It works flawlessly with Windows ME and I have been creating a countless number of high quality CDs without a single problem. I strongly recommend this product because it is easy to use and the end result is extremely pleasing! This is one VERY satisfied customer!!
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Summary: burn baby burn
Review: THE BEST drive i've ever used - go plextor! - a friend recommended it and i'll agree, it's one excellent workhorse of a burner. the software's easy, the thing is insanely reliable - highly recommended!
Rating:
Summary: Very Satisfied
Review: The Plextor 24/10/40U was a replacement for my first generation CD-R drive (around 4 years old), and it is a great improvement. The Plextor is an external drive, hooking up via a USB port. It is a heavy unit with a small external power brick (not integrated). It would not be suitable for carrying around with your laptop, but I appreciate the solid and durable feel, which would not be the case with a light portable unit. The Plextor is a USB 2.0 device, but it is compatible with USB 1.1, which is the way I have to run it for now. The write speed for CD-R therefore has to drop to 4x rather than the 24x posssible with USB 2.0. Nevertheless, 4x is much faster than the 1x I had to run my original CD-R. A buffer underrun facility allows you to keep using your computer for normal activity without worrying that the CD being copied to will temporarily run out of data, turning it into a coaster. (On my original CD-R, I had to leave my hands off the computer while copying was being done.) I've not tested CD-W (writing multiple times to a CD-W disk), but that is supposed to run at 10x under USB 2.0. The new version of the Easy CD Creator software is much improved over the original Easy CD Creator. It was simple to do a straight CD to CD-R copy, copy a bunch of files from my hard drive to the CD-R, and create a disk of thousands of files from a single ISO image (an ISO image of Linux install disks).
Rating:
Summary: Very Satisfied
Review: The Plextor 24/10/40U was a replacement for my first generation CD-R drive (around 4 years old), and it is a great improvement. The Plextor is an external drive, hooking up via a USB port. It is a heavy unit with a small external power brick (not integrated). It would not be suitable for carrying around with your laptop, but I appreciate the solid and durable feel, which would not be the case with a light portable unit. The Plextor is a USB 2.0 device, but it is compatible with USB 1.1, which is the way I have to run it for now. The write speed for CD-R therefore has to drop to 4x rather than the 24x posssible with USB 2.0. Nevertheless, 4x is much faster than the 1x I had to run my original CD-R. A buffer underrun facility allows you to keep using your computer for normal activity without worrying that the CD being copied to will temporarily run out of data, turning it into a coaster. (On my original CD-R, I had to leave my hands off the computer while copying was being done.) I've not tested CD-W (writing multiple times to a CD-W disk), but that is supposed to run at 10x under USB 2.0. The new version of the Easy CD Creator software is much improved over the original Easy CD Creator. It was simple to do a straight CD to CD-R copy, copy a bunch of files from my hard drive to the CD-R, and create a disk of thousands of files from a single ISO image (an ISO image of Linux install disks).
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