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I/O Magic DRCD52 52x Internal IDE CD-ROM Drive
Manufacturer: I/O Magic ProductGroup: CE Binding: Electronics  CD-ROM Drives
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ASIN: B00005T3NI |
Product Description
High speed CD-ROM performance with the quality you require. Built to meet the high demands of today's software, the MagicSpin 52X employs advanced CAV (Constant Angular Velocity) and CLV (constant Linear Velocity) technologies that maintain consistent CD-ROM disk rotation speed and reads data at various transfer rates. This feature ensures less stressing of the spindle motor and thus greater reliability of the drive.The MagicSpin 52X accepts both horizontal and vertical orientations. The vertical orientation is optional. (Only 120 mm disk can be loaded at vertical orientation.)Customer Reviews:
Don't buy I/O Magic products.......2003-09-14
As a word of caution, I have just received my second replacement drive for the CDRW 48X16X48 drive I bought less than a year ago, and the second replacement drive is also defective!!!!
The original drive worked well up until about 2.5 months ago so I contacted the IO Magic RMA department, got an RMA number and sent the drive to them. After a few weeks I got a replacement drive (which was not branded as IO Magic and had a different faceplate from the one I sent in) an lo-and-behold, it was also defective... It could burn disks at 12X and lower, anything higher than that and the disk would be full of errors (checked using Nero's CD Quality check). I wasted four CD-Rs from different manufacturers finding this out.
So I send them another email, telling them the replacement drive was bad as well. After about a week I got a reply that said 'sorry about that, here is a new RMA # and we'll have UPS come pick up the drive within 2 business days'.
'Well that's nice', I thought. And it would have been if only they had picked up the drive, which they didn't. A week later after sending them an email (generating no response) about why they had not picked up the drive, I gave up and sent it to them on my own nickel.
Now I have received the replacement drive for the replacement drive and I am almost 100% sure they just sent me back the same drive again!!! Accompanying this defective drive was one piece of defective media!!!! A paper sleeve with a CD-R that was severely scratched and which had been written on already (though the disk was unreadable. They probably wrote it with the drive they sent me...).
I'm telling you. Do not buy any products from these guys if you ever think you're going to have to deal with their RMA department and support. And chances are you will.
And you know the funny thing is I don't even need this drive. I have three other fully functioning CD-RW drives at home (BusLink & 2 Sony). At this point I am more interested to find out whether they are actually going to honor their warranty. And it makes for a good conversation topic when talking to friends.
It is amazing how big a difference good support makes. When it is there, it builds brand loyalty, when it is not, it makes you want to sit down and share it with the world so they will not have to go through the same pains.
cheap and easy.......2002-02-16
someone in Alaska.......2002-01-27
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