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Summary: 5 stars
Review: bought mine 2 weeks ago, nice installation guide (CD-video), high quality and no problems so far!! *comes with $30 mail in rebate from Iomega so it's very cheap!!
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Summary: Doesn't Last.
Review: Good for about a year, then dies. Minimal support from Iomega, but Iomega's not known for support.
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Summary: Good product.
Review: Good product for little money, only note is to be carefull when buying extra discs - will so far ONLY work with Iomegas own products.Got mine from an another store (actually left my home to buy electronics!) for - for once ..the net was not cheaper.
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Summary: Nice drive for a nice price!
Review: Great drive for moderate use, burns a whole disk in about 9-10 minutes. Typical software bundle, stable drivers, and recent firmware upgrade takes care of a lot of blank media issues. Tough to beat for the price, does a nice job with music, data, and bootable CDs. Works like a champ under Win ME and Win 2K. Looking for a decent drive at a low price, look no further. Easy set up with nice documentation. Immediately recognized by MusicMatch Jukebox, reasonable audio extraction. Buy it.
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Summary: Is it Windows that's causing the problems??
Review: I bought this CD-RW over a year ago, when I was still running Windows. It was pretty wacky then, doing all sorts of things to my discs and the OS! Dunno it that's the software or what...anyway last fall I switched my computer over to Linux and this burner has WORKED LIKE A CHARM! Linux users, note: Mandrake and SuSE both recognize this flawlessly. The program cdrecord will recognize it but won't let you use DAO ...however the app cdrdao works great with it (and it's frontend, gcdmaster)! I've burned over 200 discs with this burner I've bet and only a handful have been losers, and out of those I bet only 1 or 2 were due to things beyond my control. Cheap discs (don't get cheaper then PENGO I bet), pricey discs, all burn very well - some faster than others (the Blacks are the slowest at 2x, TDK or Fuji the fastest). I would buy Iomega products again.
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Summary: Locked Up My Machine and Otherwise Didn't Work
Review: I had high hopes for this drive. It initially played music fine, so I probably installed it correctly. But on the next reboot of my Win98 machine, it took about 2 minutes extra to boot; it was stuck on loading the Iomega CD driver. The drive never worked after that, always "device not available." I could insert a CD but had to turn the computer off and on to get the CD out. Since this is the 4th Iomega device I've bought (tape drive, Jaz drive, Zip drive, now this one) for as many machines, and none have worked despite that I've been using a PC since 1984 and have installed tons of hardware, I've finally learned my lesson. I'll return this unit and buy the HP brand which is working fine for a friend.
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Summary: More trouble than it's worth
Review: I have had several of these in the office and have trouble with them all. 3 of them experienced premature hardware failure. 2 of them were discarded when the computers they lived in were upgraded and the software they came with no longer worked. I had to purchase new software from Iomega or go without them. It made more sense to upgrade to a faster drive which included software than to buy new software. I would reccommend you buy a different drive. You'll have less trouble. I have had other Iomega products also which were all prone to failure such as zip and jaz drives. Do yourself a favor and buy from the big boys.
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Summary: Great Product!
Review: I just bought mine and it works great! The software is easy to install. I had to download the software updates from adaptec.com to get rid of a couple bugs, but that was painless as well. I was able to get the full 8x writing ability to make an audio cd without any errors.
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Summary: IOMEGA CDRW 650
Review: I recently bought and installed this drive. The installation directions were easy to follow and worked well on my non-standard pentium. Write speed is good and I could get the full 8X speed the unit is rated at. Some noise from the unit, but not bad. I have had real problems with burners in the past and this one does not seem to follow those patterns at all.
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Summary: Great CDRW
Review: I wish I had bought a CDRW sooner. No issues installing it on my Win 2K/Win98 dual boot machine or. I had more problems figuring out what was the Slave/Master setting on the pre-installed DVD.
Software is that it assumes you already had a CD/DVD. The installation program comes on CD, but wasn't an issue for me.
Software included is Adaptec's Easy CD Creator 4. (I wish it came with version 5 or a discount for the upgrade I want to make Video CDs). It also comes with Direct CD, which makes a CDR/W like a second hard drive with Delete and Rename capabilities.
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