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Summary: Mine doesn't work with Retrospect, your's might
Review: Bought it as a backup device for photos (works fine) and as a backup device for my iMAC. Was supposed to work with Retrospect. Well, apparently there are two different QPS QPCDRW121032FEM External 12x10x32 Firewire CD-RW Drives. Mine has Teac innards and isn't certified to work with Retrospect (Dantz' way of saying that it's not supported and gets a Type 2 error on my iMAC DV). The Plexor(?) innards supposedly work. How does someone order the right one over the Internet if you can't look through the translucent case before you buy it?
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Summary: AVOID THIS DRIVE!
Review: Bought this about a year ago for the business, and it has been slowly dieing a painful death by bad power supply for the past three months. QPS is no help on-line and there is no toll-free number to call them up on. Of course the pitiful warranty is expired as well, and I don't have time for this foolishness.Makes a nice EXPENSIVE paperweight I suppose.
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Summary: Love it... on my Dell C600 Laptop
Review: Dell C600 Laptop running MS Win 2kPro w/Macsense FW-200 FW CB Card (single height, including thin plug) and Belkin FW 4X Hub which runs this and my lousy Maxtor FW 80Gb HD (buy a QPS FW HD instead.) Setup was a snap and it works as advertised after Roxio CD Creater free upgrade. Never have a problem with it, even use it as an extra HD and carry the HD CDs to other machines. I would buy a QPS again (the fastest one of course.)
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Summary: Great...when it works
Review: I actually have the Que!Fire 8x8x32 CDRW burner. It worked wonderfully with my iMac (Mac OS 9.0.4) for about a month or so. However, then Toast (which was included) began having trouble recognizing the drive. Now the drive isn't recognized at all, and the burner simply won't work. And with the exception of their website, QPS tech support doesn't seem to exist. I've tried everything the website suggests and nothing fixed the problem.
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Summary: LOUSY customer service!!
Review: I find it funny to read some of the (few) bubbly reviews from people whos drives are working fine. I would love to be there to see how quickly their attitude WILL change when they experience a problem with their drive and TRY and resolve it with QPS. They are in for a treat.
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Summary: Speedy and reliable, somewhat buggy software
Review: I haven't made any coasters in 15 tries, which is good. The product is fast, but there are periods when it has to do overhead and it doesn't write. Overall, I do audio CD tracks to a full CD-R in 10 minutes or so, which is OK. The software is a little quirky. Sometimes the Dell Inspiron 8000 will not shut down if the drive is still active. It isn't too big a deal to disconnect it, but this is still a problem. This drive also doesn't like being daisy chained with Firewire hard drives, and will sometimes lock up. If you simply plug this device in and use it (by itself) I haven't found any defects. The latest version of Easy CD is much better than the earlier ones, on balance, despite the glitches. My computer came with the Firewire interface, which is great. I only wish it were standard on all PC's.
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Summary: Firewire cord dilema
Review: I just recieved this drive only to find that the included cord would not plug into my Inspiron 8000. I don't know much about computers so this had my scatching my head for a while. Turns out that they sent me a 6/6 plug and I needed a 6/4 plug. I am now ordering the correct plug but am dissipointed about not getting to use the drive yet....
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Summary: Firewire cord dilema
Review: I just recieved this drive only to find that the included cord would not plug into my Inspiron 8000. I don't know much about computers so this had my scatching my head for a while. Turns out that they sent me a 6/6 plug and I needed a 6/4 plug. I am now ordering the correct plug but am dissipointed about not getting to use the drive yet....
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Summary: never worked
Review: I ordered this CD-RW for my Mac G4, which it was supposed to be compatable with, but it never worked. I went through all the help possible from the company, including 30 minutes on the phone with their technical support people, but no luck. My system meets all the requirements they claim it needs to use the drive, with all current extensions, software, and operating system. I am returning the drive to Amazon today...
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Summary: I really like this CD-RW!
Review: I started out using this unit just for the basics, compiling a favorites Audio CD from my CD collection with no problems. Things got a little tricky-er when I was writing from Pro Tools recording software. You have to watch what your doing with the Toast software. It works well if you give it what it wants, but I had to make about 5 coasters to find out what it wanted to see from Pro Tools. This unit is not for the attention-span challenged! You have to work with it a little bit to understand it's do's and don'ts, but after you sus it out a bit, it really delivers!
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