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Summary: Painless and fast
Review: After great trouble getting several other makes to work, this one plugged in and worked with no trouble at all. Ratings like "16x" always seem to be too optimistic: after overhead it drops some, but this drive is still impressively fast. And it has the seemingly rare distinction of working fine with Retrospect in case you want to do full backups to it.
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Summary: Easy, wonderful, phenominal product
Review: After spending many frustrating hours with a crappy Iomega Predator, I finally gave up and went looking for something better and found it in this drive. Hooked it up and haven't had a single bad burn yet since I bought it almost a year ago. I burn all the time--it is fast, reliable, and durable. The case is a bit on the bulky side--even with the nice traveling case it's not what I'd call portable, but I don't really care.
Rating:
Summary: Easy, wonderful, phenominal product
Review: After spending many frustrating hours with a crappy Iomega Predator, I finally gave up and went looking for something better and found it in this drive. Hooked it up and haven't had a single bad burn yet since I bought it almost a year ago. I burn all the time--it is fast, reliable, and durable. The case is a bit on the bulky side--even with the nice traveling case it's not what I'd call portable, but I don't really care.
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Summary: No problems with my laptop!
Review: I bought this drive in late 2000 when it was perhaps the best choice. In today's market it is outdated by smaller and better designed drives from other manufacturers.The case is huge, with lots of empty space around the sides and top for no reason other than a designer's idea of how the drive should look. The power supply is outside the case and is one of those huge annoying black "bricks." The power connector is fussy to plug in (din connector) and delicate. On one of my drives the brick failed completely. I fixed it by doing what most users do these days, I put the QPS drive in a PYRO external case, which has a built in power supply, and is about the same size as the original QPS case.
Rating: 
Summary: This drive is outdated! And huge!
Review: I bought this drive in late 2000 when it was perhaps the best choice. In today's market it is outdated by smaller and better designed drives from other manufacturers. The case is huge, with lots of empty space around the sides and top for no reason other than a designer's idea of how the drive should look. The power supply is outside the case and is one of those huge annoying black "bricks." The power connector is fussy to plug in (din connector) and delicate. On one of my drives the brick failed completely. I fixed it by doing what most users do these days, I put the QPS drive in a PYRO external case, which has a built in power supply, and is about the same size as the original QPS case.
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Summary: it worked great (when it worked)
Review: I bought this drive when I needed high speed burning and I didn't have a desktop PC that was fast enough to push a 16x burner. I bought it because I read that they were using plextor drives and I'll swear by a plextor on reliability. I got the drive and it was a plextor. Unfortunately, it had been damaged in shipping. I guess the UPS man dropped it. I sent it back to amazon and got a replacement about a week later. This drive was a Teac, but the thing worked perfectly. I burned tons of cd's. I was in college at the time and moved about every semester but otherwise the thing just sat on my desk. I wasn't carrying it around a whole lot. One day (about a month after the warranty ran out) the thing just quit. It won't read or write a cd. Win98 will recognize it as a drive but you can't get any data from it. It was a good drive but don't count on it for a long term solution. I'm buying a new desktop next and i'll put an internal plextor in it.
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Summary: it worked great (when it worked)
Review: I bought this drive when I needed high speed burning and I didn't have a desktop PC that was fast enough to push a 16x burner. I bought it because I read that they were using plextor drives and I'll swear by a plextor on reliability. I got the drive and it was a plextor. Unfortunately, it had been damaged in shipping. I guess the UPS man dropped it. I sent it back to amazon and got a replacement about a week later. This drive was a Teac, but the thing worked perfectly. I burned tons of cd's. I was in college at the time and moved about every semester but otherwise the thing just sat on my desk. I wasn't carrying it around a whole lot. One day (about a month after the warranty ran out) the thing just quit. It won't read or write a cd. Win98 will recognize it as a drive but you can't get any data from it. It was a good drive but don't count on it for a long term solution. I'm buying a new desktop next and i'll put an internal plextor in it.
Rating: 
Summary: Why go external?
Review: I don't see any reason to use external CD burners as apposed to internals. A few things to consider:
1. Externals cost significantly more than internals.
2. Externals are most often larger and heavier than internal (with a few exceptions) making them actually less portable.
3. With externals, you need to carry wires around. Internals use standardized wires. Every computer has an IDE cable and a power cable from the power supply. Try asking your friends if they have a spare FireWire cable and AC adapter with the right voltage to hook up your CD-Burner with.
4. Externals often require drive-specific windows drivers. With internals, windows uses it's standard IDE CD-ROM drives and recognizes the drive on boot-up. all you need to install is CD-Burning software.
Rating: 
Summary: I Hate It!
Review: I hate it!! After waiting for nearly a month, it arrived (today 12/13) with no users's manual (not even on disc), no drivers (I assume they are needed) no instructions on how to even turn the thing on!!.... only the "Toast" software installation disc. "Toast" will not recognize the drive. There is no phone number for technical support ( I hate that!). No helpfull info on the QPS Web-site. I also own an equivelent LaCie Firewire drive which works flawlessly. I thought it was designed for "portable" use (it does come in a nifty carrying case) however, the thing is big and bulky. As I bought for use with my Mac laptop it is apparently of no use to me and I intend to return it. I'm sorry I bought it1
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Summary: I Hate It!
Review: I hate it!! After waiting for nearly a month, it arrived (today 12/13) with no users's manual (not even on disc), no drivers (I assume they are needed) no instructions on how to even turn the thing on!!.... only the "Toast" software installation disc. "Toast" will not recognize the drive. There is no phone number for technical support ( I hate that!). No helpfull info on the QPS Web-site. I also own an equivelent LaCie Firewire drive which works flawlessly. I thought it was designed for "portable" use (it does come in a nifty carrying case) however, the thing is big and bulky. As I bought for use with my Mac laptop it is apparently of no use to me and I intend to return it. I'm sorry I bought it1
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