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Summary: One of the Best
Review: After buying a Yamaha and a Plextor i have to say this is a great peice of softwear. You can burn a cd in six minutes while the yamaha can get it in five. Its better than a plextor because you create a cd in seven minutes. The softwear is super. Better than both the yamaha and plextor. You can create vcd in six miutes and watch them in your dvd player. If you have a dsl or higher connection, i advise you to buy this or the yamaha 161040 and download movies there a program called limewire. Then you need to change the file to .DAT and then burn it to cd. You will be able to watch the movie now! Its super. I give it a five star because its that good. Well, in order of speed, i say Yamaha 16x then Hp 16x then Plextor 16x. The order of softwear its hp 16x then yamaha 16x then plexstor. My first serious review!
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Summary: Burns as well as my Plextor
Review: i purchased this drive after i've been through two (2) plextor 161040A's, both of which have gone south within a 6 month period. The plextor customer support was very good, however, their warranty replacement process is painfully slow (approx. 1-2 months). I thought i was paying for one of the top drives, which worked flawlessly for the most part, only to find that their reliability is sub-par with my experience.
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Summary: not bad, but plextor's always has the best writers..
Review: ok, a user wrote a review that said plextor took 2 minutes longer than the hp.. please, don't listen to this person, he/she's obviously new to this whole thing to have any idea as to what he's talking about.first off.. the plextor that does it in that much time is the 12x.. if you haven't payed attention, plextor has 16x cd-burners out for under 200 dollars, and it was rated number one product of the year by cnet (i believe, could be pcworld.. actually i think it is pcworld) anyway.. that's a very big thing to say about an electronic device.. not to mention it was given to a cd burner. you can with a 16x make a cd in 5 minutes.. but if you have an hp, you better not print something, or run a big program or else! you'll get those all too frequent "coasters" which are totally wasted discs.. and are useless.. plextor was the first burner i know of to come out with burn-proof technology. i'm not going into the explaination of what it is, but you can find it on their website.. since i bought my plextor, i haven't had a single disc go to waste.. and believe me i tried my very hardest to get the disc to mess up.. i had big programs running, and i started printing a pretty big document.. and it still worked perfectly.. true, it slows down when it meets with those buffer underruns.. but at least you don't get errors.. i wouldn't mind waiting an extra 2 minutes for a perfect disc, than to have to re-do the whole process over again. hp should stick with printers.. which are also pretty terrible. don't you people realize, your paying for marketing.
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Summary: Extremely annoying vibration machine!
Review: This drive is ok as a burner...I could give it a 4 star rating...but when used in the read mode to install programs or play games it is a -10 star performer. This thing vibrates so loudly when installing programs from a cd I think it is going to fly apart. I reurned one and a got a replacement from HP(absolutely great service). But it was just like the original. I asked them to replace it with a 9500i, but that was disallowed. So I am writing this review of a real lousy piece of gear. I have many HP products, this is my only complaint about any of their gear.
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Summary: Shake rattle and roll !!!
Review: This is a good drive for burning disks. I've never had a bad burn with this drive. But it is very noisy at high read speeds. I first had this drive in a micro ATX case and it was bearable, but then I moved all my computer components to a full sized tower. Im afarid that my computer is going to shake apart when this thing is going! I recently got a new LG DVD/CDROM drive and Im using that as my primary drive cause this thing just vibrates too much. If ya can go for a different drive. This thing is just too noisy.
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