Drives > Amacom Technologies Drives

Advantages: Does The Job
Disadvantages: Called Baby

...review. I purchased this Amacom Baby (Sigh) DVD-RW with my well earned paper round money a few years back. I got it secondhand off my uncle who didn't want it anymore so it was passed on to me. I gave him fifty pound for it and took it home to start burning. Setup was easy because this is an external player. All you need to do is find a spare USB port on your computer and plug in the DVD RW. The computer will pick the driver up and all you need ...
...the software. You get all the software you need to start burning DVD's but I used Sonic and Nero. I found the on disc software was a little out of date and didn't have many special features. You'll find many computer users in offices use external devices. The main reason is because it's on your desk. I happen to have a large desk and have plenty of room for this device. I don't like reaching under the desk everytime I want to insert a disk so ... Read review

Advantages: Portable
Disadvantages: Connection to computer is via parallel cable so slow data transfer

So a portable CD-ROM. Why you may ask. Well I will tell you this device has saved my bacon many times. Ever had a computer or laptop with No internal CD-ROM drive and it will not boot into Windows? What do you do! Well I just hooked up the EZCD drive to the computer loaded the computer into dos and booted from the drives floppy and the CD-ROM was running. Then windows could be installed no bother! Anyway, it connects to the computer via parallel ...
...But there are versions of this product that you can get that have USB instead. It works well with DOS, 95, 98, ME, XP. I'm not sure about 2000 it would never except the drivers and 2000 always crashed when I tried installing it. So i wouldn't recommend buying it for 2000 unless its a more newer product and has a drivers disk for 2000. You can place any CD-ROM drive in the device as the CD-ROm that comes with it is removable so maybe you could remove ... Read review

Advantages: "works" with Mac and Windows
Disadvantages: Too many to list.

...work... (using Taiyo Yuden media bought from Microboards authorised retailers) >Manuals... inexistent! After days of bugging their support, a PDF was emailed over... > Support - rude and unhelpful most of the time. Takes days to get anything out of them In short? Stay well clear from this product! ... Read review

Advantages: Fast Write speeds, wide compatibilty, 20 speed dvd writing and CHEAP
Disadvantages: Not any that i've experienced!!

I found this to be an excellent drive as i picked up one for around £30 and that was when it came out(last year, june). I think that this is an excellent drive for the fact it has a wide range of DVD and CD writing features; 20 speed writing, my favourite feature is the light scribe feature which allows you to design your own cd labels on a special 'lightscribe disc'. The Drive was also quiet, but not too quiet. I found the OEM Box that the drive ... Read review

Advantages: Very Cheap, Changeable cover panels, Fast Speed
Disadvantages: No firmware, Region Locked, Major issues with burning regular cd's

...and thus bought it as LG has become more reputable. The Pros This drive was very easy to install. It was practically a plug and play drive. It also came with different front panels in order to change colors from black and white. Although this may seem pointless it is a factor to take into consideration if you are after certain specification like color for your computer. The drive has never had a problem playing any cd's DVD's and etc. It ...
...this drive as it seems LG has forgotten about this drive and moved on. 3) This final problem is the killer part of this drive and the reason it is ranked so low. When durng xvid files and various other files onto a CD to watch on an xvid player and part of the files which are over 350 mb will not work. Thus typically TV shows are 350 mbs and meaning half the disc is wasted. Despite the cheap prices of CD's these days it still is a waste. Conclusion ... Read review