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Advantages: Can show off to your friends
Disadvantages: Unstable

...was a time when a Creative product was a good product. The name alone was sufficient to know that your newly purchased soundcard would be compatible with every thing you could throw at it, and would be reliable, and stable. Somewhere along the product line, Creative changed. No longer were their products the reliable things that people were used to. I purchased one of the 36 speed cd-rom drives with an IR remote control. Beautiful thing, when it ...
...you would hope for. After install, my computer became instantly unstable, and the BIOS refused to acknoledge my second hard drive. After much fiddling, I discovered the cd-rom drive did not like sharing an IDE chain with another piece of hardware. The driver is also buggy, and slows your pc down even when the drive is not in use. When it works, as i say, it's nice - the remote control thing is so nice, and impressed people. But I could not wait to ... Read review

Advantages: Fast, Fairly Cheap, Creative Provide Good Support
Disadvantages: Very Poor Performance, Mega Spins and Undetections Galore

At first this may seem like a very fast drive for a very reasonable price, however, you should not be fooled by this extremely buggy drive. After installing this drive in 2 system, both have experienced such problems as difficulties reading certain cd media, mega over spins when cd roms are inserted into the drive as it is trying to detect the disc and also sometimes the drive does not even appear in windows at all! As for that 'Turbo' button I ...
...this button appeared to produce more problems than it is worth, causing many of the drives that it previously already had enough trouble reading succesfully to even have more problems. This drive is certainly one to avoid folks. I would not recommend this drive to anybody and I just hope that people wont be fooled as I was. (BTW in both instances I was using this drive with the latest version of Windows 98 SE) ... Read review

Advantages: lots in pack
Disadvantages: none

...some other budget models, the creative cd blaster is a good all round package that comes witha great wealth of extras. As well as nero burning rom software and the requisite connectors, opening the box reveals 10 cdr's and one cdrw as well as your very own cd labelling kit with 50 labels so i guess this is what you pay the higher price for but this does not mean there is a lack in drive performance, speeds are quick and i would strongly reccommend ... 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