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Summary: GET IT B4 SOMEONE ELSE DOES!!!
Review: This drive is well worth the price. It's really a high quality Ricoh underneath the Cendyne box. I upgraded the firmware from an update by Ricoh, not by Cendyne. All that Cendyne does is buy the burner from Ricoh and make the box and manual for it. So don't worry about buying a low-quality burner. For the other reviewers complaining about Adaptec incompability, this is not true. The newest versions of Adaptec burning software works with it. And by the way, WHO CARES!!! It comes with Nero, which is an awesome burning program. It is easy to use for beginners and has all the features an advanced user needs. For those complaining about lockups, I had those too AFTER I installed Adaptec software. But all I did to fix the problem was go to c:\windows\system\iosubsys and took out some vxd files that the worthless Adaptec software put there. Overall, good deal. VERY GOOD DEAL!!!
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Summary: Beware of some ATAPI driver incompatabilities.
Review: This unit may work well when it is installed in some systems, however as the manufacturer states in their manual "compatability is not waranted". I couldn't get it to work properly with my system and had to remove it after my hard disk/cd driver locked up. Also, the manufacturers customer service line is always busy, and didn't return any messages.
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Summary: what a great drive for a great price,
Review: This is the 6th CDRW drive I have bought. I planed to give it to my brother for Xmas and I thought about giving him my Sony 8x4x32x so I could keep it for myself. The drive was a RICHO Dive in cendyne packaging. It supports 700mg "overburning" and came with Nero 5.0 burning software. If you are a novice to installing hardware this dive might not be the best option for you, as thear is no step by step install guide. If you are looking for a low cost high quality drive this might be the one for you.
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Summary: Great price and great product!
Review: I just got this CD-RW yesterday. Thank you Amazon for your timely shipping. I have to tell you that I barely know anything about hardware. This CD-RW is easy to install(just follow the instruction). The NERO software is easy to use. I've burned a couple of CDs and everything works great. You can't go wrong with this incredible price!
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Summary: Great Burner, Great Price
Review: This is the best deal I've ever gotten on anything for my computer. Some people may be scared away by the name but DON'T BE. The drive is manufactured by Ricoh (an extremely respectable company with a good reputation) with a different name so that you can get the drive for less. The software that comes in this package is great. It allows raw writes and ignores illegal TOC so that you can make "backups" of your software. If you want a burner and are on a budget, don't hesitate to buy this one.
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Summary: You just can not get a better drive for money!!
Review: Who the hell is Cendyne? I bet that's what you are thinking. Well, I had not heard of them either. But that's not important. What is important is what's inside. ...what you will be getting is a quality Ricoh 6x4x32x drive inside, instead of one of those not so reliable drives from the second or third tier manufacturers. Ricoh makes one of the best CDR/W drives along with Yamaha and Sony. You might be thinking, "How about HP?". No, HP does not make their drives. They are made by Sony. HP only slaps their blue logo on it. Of course, Plextor makes better drives than any of them, but you will be paying 2 - 3 times more for them. Yes, it does work with Adaptec 4.0 as long as you get the free update from the Adaptec site. Also, it has a good 2MB buffer. It seems that some people had a problem with this drive. Well, installing an IDE CDR/W (not only this Ricoh drive, but also any other IDE drives) could be tricky especially if you have a non-Intel chipset based motherboard. If you have a VIA chipset based motherboard, make sure to update the busmaster driver (VIA 4in1 driver) from VIA's website. You don't know what motherboard you have? Just go to Control Panel => System => Device Manager and see what you have in your System Devices. Also make sure to enable the DMA support.
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Summary: Amazon slow delivery
Review: *Note-nothing to do with quality of item, just how reliable Amazon is on shipping this product. I ordered this from amazon a long time ago. I thought it would come before Christmas. They also said it would take awhile for shipping. I respected that and placed my order. More than a week went by and it was the next Friday. The date they said it would arrive. I checked to see where it was and they changed the date to at least 5 days to deliver. Now i might not get it before Christmas and i am very unhappy with the service with Amazon
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Summary: Does not read the CDs it writes to
Review: After getting myself familiar with NERO software I tried to write to the CD-R. As per the messages the write was successful after doing the simulation etc. But the drive would not read from the CD I just burned! Tried with some more CDs but same result. It is really frustrating. I'm in the process of returning it. What a waste of time. Will buy a backpack or Hp.
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Summary: What a deal!
Review: ...This is my first burner and was nervous at first, but the Nerosoftware is SIMPLE to use(Has a burner Wizard that takes you throughstep by step). The quality is Fantastic! I gave it 4 stars because themanual is a little "techie" which might make new computerusers confused. Also, the manual says "set the drive asMaster(jumper) if connecting to an existing CD-ROM-which I did. NOGO...Had to move the jumper over to Slave for it to work. But,remember all systems are different so do as the manual says! Simpleproblem solved so don't let this scare you from purchasing- I LOVEMINE! Get one fast-you'll love it!
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Summary: Totally Unreliable!
Review: At first it seemed to work with certain media and then that became hit or miss. I knew it was time to return this device when my computer started to freeze up when I attempted to open files or folders on the drive. Forget this burner, not worth the headache.
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