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 | Title : Pacific Digital U30109 16x10x40 External USB 2.0 CD-RW Drive
Author : Pacific Digital
Release Date : 20011121
Binding : Electronics
Regular Price : $149.99
Amazon.com Price : $121.74
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Editorial Reviews :
Pacific Digital presents this USB 2.0 rewritable CD drive for quick recording to CD-R/RW media. Compatible with up to 700 MB and 74-minute recordable CD media, this external drive can fill an entire disc in under five minutes.
Using USB 2.0 technology for quick access time and data transfer, this CD-RW drive is capable of reading up to 6 MBps and recording up to 2.4 MBps. An external drive, you can install it on your current setup without the hassle of adding another internal drive. If you don't have an available USB 2.0 port, an add-on card is provided that plugs directly into an internal PCI slot.
Pacific Digital uses an automatic speed control that selects the best recording speed for the current disk's capability and recording conditions. Combining this, a 2 MB buffer memory, CAV writing support, and powerful recording software, buffer underruns and unusable CD 'coasters' become a thing of the past.
Pacific Digital covers this drive with a one-year warranty on parts and labor.
Buyer Reviews :
Portability, high-speed recording, and even an attractive sleek black design make this external CD-RW drive a valuable tool in a multi-computer household. Included with the drive is a USB 2.0 PCI card--essential for fast burning as most computers come standard with only USB 1.1 ports. However, even if you don't install a 2.0 card in your computer you can still utilize this backwards compatible drive at a speed of 4x4x8 with USB 1.1.
Installation was a snap, however, the installation manual was rather sparse and the troubleshooting guidelines were ineffectually written, which may pose difficulty for the novice user. I cannot comment on Pacific Digital technical support because I did not have reason to use it. They do provide toll free supoort 12 hours per day Monday-Friday and 6 hours on Saturdays.
Burning CD's at the speed promised works provided you have an up-to-date high speed processor. In decoding MP3 tracks to CD, the system processor becomes the key factor, but I also discovered that in copying data and application files the processor had a significant effect. To trial this I burnt a 600.78 Mb application CD using my Pentium 4 1.6 Ghz processor and completed such at a rate of 5:13. I then recorded the same CD on a 300 Mhz AMD-K62 processor (also with a 2.0 USB card) with a resulting time of 10:15. These findings do not denote deficiencies in the CD-RW drive itself, they only demonstrate the correlation between processor capabilities paired with the CD-RW drive. Thus far all of my recordings have been clean, accurate, and error free.
What makes this particular Pacific Digital CD-RW drive a stand out is the abundant software package included. Loaded with standard, trial, and lite versions of multiple programs, the user if offered a great deal of versatility. The following is a list of such:
1) NTD CD-Maker 2000 Standard: An easy to use interface for
creating and publishing your CD's.
2) ixla Web Easy Express: Create a website.
3) Sound Forge XP Demo 4.5: Use for multimedia presentations
or websites. Manipulate your wav files with noise shaping,
fade-outs, pitch blends, echoes, and more.
4) Acid 2.0: Create your own digital music tracks.
5) D Cart 32: This trial software will allow you to restore an
old 78 RPM recording.
6) File CD 2.0: Turn a CD into a high capacity floppy like
storage device.
7) Stamp Click 'N Design: This trial allows you to create high
quality CD and jewel case labels.
8) Lumenati: Create playlists of different types of music and
video files. Organize media files and design wild new
skins.
9) Diamond Cutters: A trial advanced noise reduction tool.
10) Muvee: An audio producer/video production tool.
11) Virtual Drive: A trial that copies data from a CD to a
virtual CD-ROM drive on your hard drive making the CD-ROM
unneccessary.
12) Photo Fantasy (lite): Combine personal photos with a wide
variety of background images.
13) Photo Printer (lite): Enables you to lay out and print your
images in muliple sizes on a single sheet of paper.
14) Photo Studio: A trial photo editing application. A huge
collection of photo editing and retouching tools.
15) CD Identifier: Identifies the manufacturer of your CD
recording media.
16) Photoisland.com: Directs you to a photo editing website.
Needless to say there is also what I would term junk software enclosed. This can be easily bypassed though with customizing your installation. In conclusion this Pacific Digital CD-RW kit represents a good bang for your buck. So give its purchase your consideration....sorry Mac owners this one is PC compatible only.
(by Christine Lynn Jones)
Features/Technical Specs :
* High-speed USB 2.0 external CD rewritable drive
* Includes USB 2.0 controller card
* Create 74-minute CDs in under 5 minutes
* CAV support for on-the-fly data backup
* Supported by a 1-year parts and labor warranty
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