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| Product Reviews from Amazon.com (Rating System 1 to 5) |
| Review | Rating | Last Updated | Good burner for Mac OSX
I bought a refurbished one for 50 bucks from besteksolutions and run it on Mac OSX with the included discribe software and it works perfect. Install took 2 minutes. Although it took about 25 mins to burn an 80 min CD it works perfect. I would recommend to anyone with a Mac, I don't know why everyone else seems to have problems. | 4 | Today | Cheap drive, esp under USB 1.1
Cute looking, and the included HotBurn software loaded smooth and has a bunch of cool-looking skins. And that's all the good I can say about this drive. It would not open the tray unless you quit the burner software (big pain for trading disks), it would lock the computer after a few burns, and if you made the mistake of starting up while the drive was powered up....! For all of that, I used it for several months. Until it stopped burning good CD-ROMs, and refused to get a good burn dispite re-install of OS, Hotburn, and trial of several different brands of media. And HotBurn is fancy, like I said, but won't save, slows down terribly once you pass about twenty items, and has essentially NO options. And, like I say, you need to quit just to insert a fresh CD. And did I mention that when it auto-detects the burner has been powered up, it then goes on to search every bus on the computer for burners (taking about five minutes)? | 1 | Today | Who uses CD burners anymore?
Get with the program it's all about DVD burners now. | 1 | Today | I love it
First off. I had some of the same problems with locking and down and crashing on my old computer. Since I have bought a new computer with usb 2.0 ports I have no problems. Usb 2.0 makes a huge difference. I would not recommend using it on usb 1.1. Your not getting full use of it this burner if you do. I can burn a cd with nero or the hotburn software in about 2 minutes. Hotburn software is actually a lot easier to use if you have never used it or Nero. Overall, I highly recommend this burner to anyone with a decent computer. | 5 | Today | Outdated
This product is compatible with Mac, but only up through OS9.1. I will not operate on any higher OS. | 1 | Today | Rate zero, Do not purchase
I have had nothing but problems with this CD Burner. The burning software that comes with it locks most of the time. I have been able to burn only a few CDs, and it's whenever the thing decides to work. I hate it, but I paid for it and I'm stuck with it. Don't buy. I run windows XP, the Iomega site is not helpful at all. And i've tried applying the patches and it actually made things worse. | 1 | Today | Terrific for Digital Photography!
I received this as a Christmas present from my sister. I knew little about CD burners, and my sister knew less! After receiving it, I saw the bad reviews here and began to worry....Fortunately, it works wonderfully for what I wanted it for--burning digital photos. I found the Iomega software to be very confusing at first, but I just ended up bunring ALL my photos on the included DataLifePlus CD. There were hundreds of them, and it took less than 5 minutes. I then viewed them on my PC to make sure they were there! They were. If using the Iomega software, you can just bring up MY Pictures and delete the folders you don't want. Personally, I can't figure out any other way how to just get what folders I want into the work area. But that's probably me. (Of course, if Iomega had included a printed manual, I'd probably be having no problems.)The XP MY PICTURES wizard will not recognize the Iomega, even though the software installed with no problems at all. The Microsoft Digital Image 9 will recognize it, and then say it's archiving the photos onto CD, but it's not--the burner drawer does not open when finished, and there appears to be nothing on the disk, but yet the disk is no longer writable!Fortunately for me, I also have Kodak EasyShare software...and it immediately recognizes the Iomega, and controls it flawlessly. I don't have to use the Iomega software at all. And as I said, it takes just a few minutes to record hundreds of highest quality photos on a Verbatim DataLifePlus disk--the disk PC Photo highly recommends. Music seems to be another matter, but I've not done much with it. I used the Windows Media Player software to record an album on a Verbatim vinyl disk, and although my CD player recognized the disk and the number of songs, it couldn't play them. But note, I do have a compact system, and not a component system, and all compacts are weaker in everything. I then repeated the process with a DataLifePlus CD, and that worked. My CD player played the disk with no problem. I repeated the process a third time using the Iomega software and a DataLifePlus disk, and my CD player once again recognized the number of songs, and was actually playing them, but there was no sound! Later on, when I get a pre-amp, I'll be putting records on CDs, and Iomega's Pro Burn software does have advanced editing features for that. But I think I'll probably end up using my Microsoft Plus! Digital Media Edition, if it will work.I feel like I probably should be giving the Iomega less than 4 stars...but I can't. It works great and super fast for what I got it for--digial photography. And with the Kodak software, it's all super easy. | 4 | Today | Beware
I bought this to move files of all types from a Win98SE desktop to a WinXP media center desktop. I had problems from the get-go. The installation software deleted and changed the drive configs on the Win98SE. Deleted the internal cdrom drive. Changed the regedit,config.sys, and autoexec files and substitued its own. Took 2 full days w/tech support to get computer back to operation. THEN the Sonic software is really screwed up! The CinePlayer sw wouldnt recognize the external Iomega drive and thus would not launch and froze the computer! The Sonic support is terrible at best. A non-toll free phone and missed scheduled appointments lead to Sonic not being able to fix the problem. I ended up returning the Iomega for a full refund. Iomega does NOT support the Sonic software it uses. Don't waste your money with this nor any Sonic software product. | 1 | Today | Is there a score lower than zero?
I had nothing but problems with this drive. Every time I pluged it in, my windows 98se would lock up within 3 minutes. I tried it on two different computers and got the same result. I wasted a week of evenings downloading patches, updates, etc. The troubleshooting was not very helpful and the Iomega websight was slower than molasses in december. So after a stress-filled week I exchanged it for a TDK brand cdrw. I was burning disks in like five minutes. Maybe it was just my computer (both of them?) but I would recommend looking elsewhere if you want a trouble free drive. | 1 | Today | It just doesn't work on Win2K
I've used Iomega products since the Zip 100 with nary a problem. So when it came time to get a CD burner my first choice with Iomega. I made the mistake of buying this CD-RW drive right before I went on an extended overseas assignment. I say mistake because I would have returned this product, but unfortunately I'm stuck with it. Running on a high-end Dell notebook running Windows 2000 Professional this beast simply doesn't work. For example, to burn a CD with 5 CD audio files, the preprocessing takes over 45 minutes. Once it gets past that, the burn to a CD-R is fast. But the preprocessing time is simply ridiculous. I have a 32 GB disk and lots of memory, so that's not the issue. I mainly bought this product for the capability to format CR-RW disks and use them like a big floppy. This feature doesn't work AT ALL. When using Windows explorer to drag and drop between folders, the drive just churns and churns for hours (I once left the machine for over 3 hours and it was still chugging away trying to copy 8MB worth of data). Windows Explorer hangs so badly it's impossible to kill it with Task Manager. I get a message that the program can't be closed. When I click OK the whole computer hangs and I have to disconnect the power and pop out the battery to shut the computer down. Then of course I have to sit thru the scan disk process. To be fair, I recently had the thing over at a client's site where we installed the software and the drive on a desktop machine running Windows XP Professional. The drive seemed to function OK, though I've not used it extensively on XP yet. So far the support monkeys don't have a clue why this is happening, and suggest changing to XP (maybe they'd like to pay for my time to do that?) I'm really ready to just ditch the stupid thing and look for something else. Certainly if you run Windows 2000 you should be leery of buying this product. UPDATE: I tried disabling anti-virus and firewall. This improved access time to the drive. I created a new folder on the CD-RW disk and a subfolder under it. The drive won't access the subfolder. I can't delete the folders I created, not even thru the command line. I tried copying a bunch of folders from the hard drive to a freshly formatted CD-RW disk. It worked fine. I took the disk to my client's site the next day and the CD-DVD drive on his new XP machine won't read the disk. It shows a zero-byte file "Non-Allocatble Space" and nothing else. I have to say, as a person who works in high-tech, I am disappointed with this product. There are far too many hoops to jump thru. I dislike having to disable my system protections to get it to work, and even then it has proved far too unreliable and I'm tired of wasting my time and my client's time with it. I'll give it to my kids to fool around with music CDs, which it seems to do OK provided you don't run anti-virus or firewall, but I'm ditching it for business use. | 1 | Today |
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