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Summary: Major incompatiblity problems
Review: I tried to install this product twice on a Celeron 1.3GHz system with a VIA 686B chipset, running both Win98SE and WinXP Pro.The first time, I thought I had bought a defective drive, which happens rarely. Using the most current version of the Roxio Easy-CD software that came with the drive, the drive would lock up the IDE bus whenever I attempted to write to a CD-RW. When this happened again after replacing it with a 2nd drive, I suspected something else was amiss. After some investigation, I tried turning off the DMA setting for the drive, and lo and behold, it worked! Performance was less than spectacular, but it would do. The next day, I attempted to copy some tracks off of an audio CD, and when trying to read the tracks while running Win98SE, the system would lock up. On a hunch, I turned DMA back on, and it could now read the audio tracks. I'm told this may be a problem only with VIA chipsets, but I haven't had this problem with other models, therefore I can't recommend it
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Summary: Cheap, reliable and fast
Review: I would definately reccomend this fine cdrw to anybody.I paid a great price for it.It works beautiful fast.Installation was easy even tho the software bundle seemed outdated for the great hardware they supplied.So i got a copy of ahead nero work beautiful spectacular.Quiet and so far 2 months never locked up once.Again i want to say this is far yet the best deal for CDRW value and performance.
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Summary: Excellent Value
Review: This drive is an excellent value. I had no problems installing it into my Win 2000 machine. The drivers installed fine. I finally upgraded from a Plextor 8X which had a lot of buffer overrun errors. The Memorex protects against such buffer problems. This is my second Memorex drive and they seem to make a high quality product. I trust them a lot more than the generic manufacturers.
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Summary: Excellent Value
Review: This drive is an excellent value. I had no problems installing it into my Win 2000 machine. The drivers installed fine. I finally upgraded from a Plextor 8X which had a lot of buffer overrun errors. The Memorex protects against such buffer problems. This is my second Memorex drive and they seem to make a high quality product. I trust them a lot more than the generic manufacturers.
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