Title: This drive is awesome!
Product review: Great drive! When used as a reader it is the quietest 32X drive I have ever heard - it's audible, but doesn't vibrate the case screws loose. As for burning, I was tempted by 16X drives, but 12X media is cheaper and more abundant, plus the time difference on burning a full CD is only about 2 minutes when you do the math.I can't comment on the bundled software, since I'll never look at it. What I can say is that the drive works like a charm with Adaptec Easy CD Creator 4.It used to take over 20 minutes to burn a 700mb CD with my old 4X SCSI burner, now it's about 7 minutes with the 12X Sony! Haven't had any buffer underruns either, all you need is a source that can sustain a 2mb/sec read speed, which is easy to do with any 16X+ CD-ROM or modern hard drive. Who needs burn-proof these days anyway?
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