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Summary: Excellent drive
Review: ... This drive SUPPORTS Mt. Rainier (UDF 1.02), Mt. Rainier is the next generation UDF packet writing technology and it is better than UDF 1.50 which most of us are using right now (if you use packet writing at all). Mt. Rainier UDF technology handles error correction at the firmware level by the drive instead of by the burning software such as InCD, DirectCD, DLA, InstantWrite. The initial format is only 2 mins instead of 45 mins in UDF 1.50.This drive is very quiet and this is a very rare for drives that run faster than 32x.
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Summary: Best Drive Your Money Can Buy :-)
Review: I am very happy with my TDK 48X16X48 Drive...Not only it burns my CD's at a Blazing speed But read one of my scratched old favorite Jazz CD's that skips when I play it in my car accurately into crisp MP3 files, I was using "musicmatch JUKEBOX" Rip Utilities.
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Summary: Superb so far, though install not as easy as expected
Review: I chose this product for not only its speed, but its reputedly great documentation and set-up ease. As a former English Lit major, you see, I need all the help I can get when it comes to these kinds of things. Well, it still took me 2 hours to install due to: 1. my Dell PC's lousy instruction manual, and 2. TDK's almost as lousy installation video CD. I'm giving this 4 stars only because I was expecting the install to be snap, snap, snap. But I guess compared to other CD-RWs on the market this WAS a snap...all things being relative that is. Overall it was not as painful as other technical experiences have been, but it could have been better. The drive works fine so far, though: I backed up 105 MB of documents onto a CD-R in just under 2 minutes. Staggering when I reflect that this would've taken around 100 floppy diskettes and several hours of pure tedium.
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Summary: Superb so far, though install not as easy as expected
Review: I chose this product for not only its speed, but its reputedly great documentation and set-up ease. As a former English Lit major, you see, I need all the help I can get when it comes to these kinds of things. Well, it still took me 2 hours to install due to: 1. my Dell PC's lousy instruction manual, and 2. TDK's almost as lousy installation video CD. I'm giving this 4 stars only because I was expecting the install to be snap, snap, snap. But I guess compared to other CD-RWs on the market this WAS a snap...all things being relative that is. Overall it was not as painful as other technical experiences have been, but it could have been better. The drive works fine so far, though: I backed up 105 MB of documents onto a CD-R in just under 2 minutes. Staggering when I reflect that this would've taken around 100 floppy diskettes and several hours of pure tedium.
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Summary: Do NOT buy this burner!
Review: I ended up w/ this burner as a warranty replacement for my first VeloCD, which went toes up after about a month. Less than a year later, I have a completely useless burner that stalls at 6% and then freezes my entire system. After NUMEROUS emails and phone calls to TDK, I finally got "authorization" to send it in for replacement. I am so fed up, I am going to buy a Lite-On and wash my hands of it.
Look elsewhere....this burner is not work the carboard box it is packaged in.
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Summary: Do NOT buy this burner!
Review: I was considering an external CD-RW because I've never had the guts to open up my PC, but when I saw the good reviews of this model, along with a very nice rebate, I figured I'd give it a shot. The installation instructions were extremely helpful, both the "video" and the quick-start poster. It took me about an hour because I was being extremely careful at every step. So far, it has worked very well. Thanks, TDK!
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Summary: made a novice happy
Review: I was considering an external CD-RW because I've never had the guts to open up my PC, but when I saw the good reviews of this model, along with a very nice rebate, I figured I'd give it a shot. The installation instructions were extremely helpful, both the "video" and the quick-start poster. It took me about an hour because I was being extremely careful at every step. So far, it has worked very well. Thanks, TDK!
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Summary: Excellent product performance
Review: I won't spend any time on hardware installation - they're all the same when you get right down to it - but I would like to pass along my comments on the drive's performance and the software's ease of use. I value quiet operation and fast read/write performance and this drive delivers on both. It is much more quiet than the OEM drives that came with both of my Dell desktops and the kids' HP Pavillion. There's no chatter or intrusive mechanical noise at all. As for speed, this drive tears right through data CDs, music CDs, you name it. It noticeably outperforms a Dell OEM drive with the same nominal speed ratings. The bundled software is pretty good, too. Nero Express seems easy enough and the TDK Digital Blender software offers a great deal of user flexibility. This is an excellent hardware/software package. Can't beat it.
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Summary: very nice, and fast.
Review: specs:
400 intel
416 Megs pc100 RAM This burner rocks, having dealt with a HP 4x burner..., I was ready to move up. Installation was simply, easy and fast, I was burning within 10 minutes (win98 startup is slow.....)
I burned 580 megs in 2:45, the data verification took roughly 3 minutes. much faster than my previous burner. .. I was going in to buy the 32X, but they ran out, so I broke down (don't mind the pun) and bought the new one. I've burned 10 CD-Rs so far, and none have failed, (no restart in between burns). I;ve been using 48X and 32X CD-Rs, lower speed CD-R/Ws might have someother unforseen problems. The CD-RW full erase takes about 30-40 minutes. I primarily bought this Burner to archive my music and data, and it works well. registering the product is simple, but you gotta do a somewhat long survey. don't worry about generic CD-Rs, i've tried 5 different generic brands and name brands such as TDK, memorex, imation, most work... The ability to update is good, and like most faster burners, you can do other things while you burn without fear of errors. it's a good...product.
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Summary: I Don't Know of a Better Burner
Review: This series of burners never fails to please. The first one I bought was a 16 speed for my personal computer. For different machines I have owned or worked on for clients I have seen just about every model up to this 48 speed featured here. This is a pretty impressive piece of equipment. . . I was burning full CD-Rs in less than 3or 4 minutes. It was quick enough that I never really thought about timing it. The software is easy for most any general burning task. Obviously, it is not going to do any of the "Clone" functions. But data, .mpegs, and music all are a breeze. This is definatly well worth the money, and I will not stray from the brand in my own personal use. (sometimes I get called away from TDK for business). I am happy to see that the burner is still using the bright blue, Mac-looking CD tray. (you can't see the blue when the CD door is closed). I can't think of a burner that has done the job for me with as little problem. epc
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