BUSlink RW5252FM 52x12x52 External FireWire CD-RW Drive

Rating:
Summary: Not reliable or long lasting
Review: I bought this drive about 8 months ago, and today it is dead. Though it had a good run, I would have expected more from it (especially for the price) The drive almost never reached it's max speed of 52x, and the drive did produce many coasters (ruined cds). The drive was also very picky about the kind of disk it liked to burn on, and would often come up with disk errors while closing a burned disk, or sometimes would not even start burning. I have used this drive with Toast and iTunes, occasionally with successful results, though often with not. Now it won't start burning, though my computer recognizes it, and it won't even read disks. I have plugged it into other computers to double check (making sure it's not just my computer) and it simply would not start burning disks. Avoid this one. The two stars are for the 80-100 successful burns I had with this (at a cost of about 50-80 ruined disks). Though now I don't think it will ever work again!

Rating:
Summary: Not reliable or long lasting
Review: I bought this drive about 8 months ago, and today it is dead. Though it had a good run, I would have expected more from it (especially for the price) The drive almost never reached it's max speed of 52x, and the drive did produce many coasters (ruined cds). The drive was also very picky about the kind of disk it liked to burn on, and would often come up with disk errors while closing a burned disk, or sometimes would not even start burning. I have used this drive with Toast and iTunes, occasionally with successful results, though often with not. Now it won't start burning, though my computer recognizes it, and it won't even read disks. I have plugged it into other computers to double check (making sure it's not just my computer) and it simply would not start burning disks. Avoid this one. The two stars are for the 80-100 successful burns I had with this (at a cost of about 50-80 ruined disks). Though now I don't think it will ever work again!