I received the cd writer and all accompanying items in a short amount of time, installed it as directed, but when the software went searching for the hardware, it didn't recognize it! I had to go online and download (for about 1 1/2 hours) the new software. For someone who has to pay for internet time, this would be horrible. Plus I was a little mad that they would sell the product without proper support anyway.
Easy to setup, use but beware Hard drive Speed, By A Customer
(What's this?) I bought this unit three weeks ago. The install instructions were pretty clear, and the software drivers loaded right up. The Nero software is better than Adaptec for music because you can drag and drop songs, and re-compile them more easily than CD Creator. Beware, though your CD write speed may only be 1x or 2x if your hard drive cannot keep up with the music burn youll get "CD Buffer Underrun" errors. Cendyne recommends a separate disk partition for music. Overall very good for the money.
Fantastic Burner !, A great find - I am very pleased with this burner. The installation instructions are a bit vague for a beginner, but do as I did, and seek help from a knowledgeable friend ! If I can do it, anyone can. Nero software is great - we were able to burn CDs from MP3 files in record time. You can't go wrong with this CD-RW.
Great Price/Performance Package, Installation was simple: I disconnected the cables from my Sony 32x CD-ROM drive, removed it from the case, replaced it with the CenDyne 8x8x32 EIDE Internal CD-RW Drive (manufactured by Sanyo), connected the existing cables to the new drive, and turned on the computer. Windows rebuilt its driver database and 10 minutes after I began the installation I was listening to a CD. No tweeking. Next came the software installation -- a very easy process -- afterwhich I started the Nero Burning Rom software, selected 22 songs from 22 different CDs (giving me a 70-minute compilation) and let Nero do its job. The entire process took less than an hour (10 minutes actual burn time). Recording the same songs to a cassette would have easily taken 90-100 minutes.
Are you kidding?, By A Customer
I don't know why everyone is giving this product such a high rating. I guess they all work for Cendyne or something. This burner didn't work in my computer. I tried really hard to make it work by messing with the jumpers and IDE cables but it didn't work. i spent hours trying to make it work before i realized that this is just a cheaply made product. my friend suggested to me that i should have spent $50 more in order to get a decent burner. i realize now that if you spend at least $150, you'll get a burner that's easy to use and you won't have to go through the trouble of returning an inferior product. In short, i learned that you get what you paid for.
Awesome, I had a burner that had worked fine then one day it just crapped out....This burner cause absolutely zero problems for me. It has only failed ONCE in the middle of burning a large video file onto it. I put that same CDR back in the drive and the burner (or maybe it was the software) was able to FINISH THE BURN!!! On the CDR that it had gotten the error on!! I thought that was incredible. I have and will recommend this to ANYONE looking for a great burner at a great price.
I LOVE IT!, It is cheap and the instructions were confusing. After I put it in and recorded on the CD they gave me, it was all worth it. It recorded so fast and it was easy to record.
Worth Your Money!!!!!!, By A Customer
I recently had ordered this CenDyne Cd-Rw and it works great, I can downloaded games and music in just minutes! It much cheapier making your own music cds then buying them.
Good drive...., This drive installed easily: just set the jumper to master, plug it in like the instructions say and boot up the computer. It worked 1st time out of the box, no drivers to install. Mine is reported as a TEAC CD-W58E drive in the device manager. Cendyne obviously gets these from a variety of makers. The included software with mine is NTI CD Maker 2000, similar in function to the Nero software. Cendyne has a forum for Tech Support on their website and also has helpful FAQs. My first test was to copy a CD I made on another burner, and it took about 15 minutes using the harddrive to image the CD. If you have another CDROM it would speed up the process to about 9 minutes. I recommend the Cendyne highly as a budget burner.
Fast Burner - But broke in 6 months - Read Below, HERE IS MY ORIGINAL REVIEW:
When my friend first got his burner a year or so ago it was slow and kept stalling his new computer (he couldn't run other applications while burning), so I was anxious about how this one would perform and can only say that it has not caused a single problem. I can do anything with the computer and this burner will run in the background and has, so far, produced perfect CDs in hardly no time at all (at 8X speed). If you want a burner you don't have to worry about while you are doing something else, then this may be the one for you.
A YEAR LATER:
The burner is dead (about 6 months after purchase, and not really used much during that time), which doesn't in itself say much about Cendyne since this could happen to any manufactured product. But Cendyne makes is very stenous to get it replaced, and many report that they never received their replacement. Plus you pay for shipping and (in advance) return shipping and some other replacement fee, so that buying a new one wouldn't cost you that much more. So don't be fooled by their warrenty.
Writing methods: disc at once, session at once, track at once, multi-session and packet writing.Internal EIDE/ATAPI CD-RW drive for PC.120-millisecond access time.2 MB of data buffer memory.Compatible with Windows 98, 2000 Professional, or NT 4.0 with Service Pack 5.0. The CenDyne 8x8x32 EIDE CD-RW drive's low price and great performance make it an excellent choice for the tech-savvy user, either as a first burner or as an upgrade for a slower drive. --Ken Feinstein The bottom line on recordable CD drives is simple: the faster the better. CenDyne's 8x8x32 CD-RW drive delivers excellent performance for a surprisingly low price, making it a perfect entry-level CD-RW drive or upgrade for an old, slower drive. You won't get a lot of hand holding during installation, but for anyone already comfortable installing an internal EIDE drive, this unit's price/performance ratio is hard to beat. Similar to Roxio's (formerly Adaptec) Easy CD Creator, the included Nero 5 CD-recording software combines a simple, wizard-based interface with some advanced features like Video CD creation as well the ability to create a CD-RW for restoring your hard drive's contents. The software's help files and the support Web site offer very good directions for using the software as well as hints and tips for successful CD burning. The EIDE comes with everything you need for installation right out of the box, including an IDE ribbon cable, a cable for connecting the drive to your sound card, and mounting screws.
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