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Title: Love AND Hate this drive!
Review: I bought mine over a year ago. For the first 13 months it was a very good drive. (Guess what... the warranty is 12 months!) I was usually unsuccessful in burning at 8x unless copying a cd. Most often I settled for 4x burning. It worked fine with very few coasters. Now enter the problem... At 13 months it started causing POST failures during bootup. BIOS will only detect about half of the time. The other half of the time I get "Invalid IDE device" messages. When it detects OK, the drive still works fine. After much trouble-shooting, swapping IDE controllers, slaves, masters, etc, and contacting SONY tech support, it became very obvious that this drive is my problem. I still have the drive installed and I'm still using it, however I'm now looking for a replacement. Booting 2-3 times can't be good for the rest of my components, so it's time to make a change. Would I buy another SONY??? Maybe... maybe not.
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