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I recently bought and installed this drive. The installation directions were easy to follow and worked well on my non-standard pentium. Write speed is good and I could get the full 8X speed the unit is rated at. Some noise from the unit, but not bad. I have had real problems with burners in the past and this one does not seem to follow those patterns at all.

I just bought mine and it works great! The software is easy to install. I had to download the software updates from adaptec.com to get rid of a couple bugs, but that was painless as well. I was able to get the full 8x writing ability to make an audio cd without any errors.

bought mine 2 weeks ago, nice installation guide (CD-video), high quality and no problems so far!! *comes with $30 mail in rebate from Iomega so it's very cheap!!

I bought this CD-RW over a year ago, when I was still running Windows. It was pretty wacky then, doing all sorts of things to my discs and the OS! Dunno it that's the software or what...anyway last fall I switched my computer over to Linux and this burner has WORKED LIKE A CHARM! Linux users, note: Mandrake and SuSE both recognize this flawlessly. The program cdrecord will recognize it but won't let you use DAO ...however the app cdrdao works great with it (and it's frontend, gcdmaster)! I've burned over 200 discs with this burner I've bet and only a handful have been losers, and out of those I bet only 1 or 2 were due to things beyond my control. Cheap discs (don't get cheaper then PENGO I bet), pricey discs, all burn very well - some faster than others (the Blacks are the slowest at 2x, TDK or Fuji the fastest). I would buy Iomega products again.

This burner is rated for 8x writes, and anybody who's up on CD-RW drives knows that means it should be able to burn a full CD in about 8-9 minutes. However, this drive typically takes 15-20 minutes to burn A CD. Tried the support section of the Iomega website, but could not find an answer to this problem until I read the other reviews here at Amazon that mention certain brand media is required to write at the full 8x.

Well if Memorex CD-R's isn't good enough for Iomega, then this drive shouldn't be good enough for you. My Yamaha 8x performs great no matter what brand media you use, so I would recommend you take a look at one of those instead.

I think I'm really reaching here to give this drive three stars, but it does work........more like a 4x with most media. I'd probably be more annoyed if it was slated to reside in my primary computer.