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I bought this drive when I needed high speed burning and I didn't have a desktop PC that was fast enough to push a 16x burner. I bought it because I read that they were using plextor drives and I'll swear by a plextor on reliability.

I got the drive and it was a plextor. Unfortunately, it had been damaged in shipping. I guess the UPS man dropped it. I sent it back to amazon and got a replacement about a week later.

This drive was a Teac, but the thing worked perfectly. I burned tons of cd's. I was in college at the time and moved about every semester but otherwise the thing just sat on my desk. I wasn't carrying it around a whole lot.

One day (about a month after the warranty ran out) the thing just quit. It won't read or write a cd. Win98 will recognize it as a drive but you can't get any data from it.

It was a good drive but don't count on it for a long term solution. I'm buying a new desktop next and i'll put an internal plextor in it.

I hate it!! After waiting for nearly a month, it arrived (today 12/13) with no users's manual (not even on disc), no drivers (I assume they are needed) no instructions on how to even turn the thing on!!.... only the "Toast" software installation disc.

"Toast" will not recognize the drive. There is no phone number for technical support ( I hate that!). No helpfull info on the QPS Web-site.

I also own an equivelent LaCie Firewire drive which works flawlessly.

I thought it was designed for "portable" use (it does come in a nifty carrying case) however, the thing is big and bulky. As I bought for use with my Mac laptop it is apparently of no use to me and I intend to return it.

I'm sorry I bought it1

This is the easiest CD-RW drive I've worked with. Includes BURNproof technology that creates skip free music and NO COASTERS! Everything in one convenient carrying case makes it easily portable. I also recently purchased one of QPS' 20G external hard drives...works like a charm...

I recently ordered this drive to replace a Archos MiniCDRW which died one day after warrenty. (...) The drive works like a charm, so quick abd quiet. Using a laptop and being on the go kinda sucks when you need to lug a clumsy sized drive with it too. Size is a little bigger than I hoped (compared to the Discman sized Archos I previously had), but the carry case included helps out to lug it overseas and stuff....
I recommend this to someone that needs portablity.

I bought this drive in late 2000 when it was perhaps the best choice. In today's market it is outdated by smaller and better designed drives from other manufacturers.

The case is huge, with lots of empty space around the sides and top for no reason other than a designer's idea of how the drive should look. The power supply is outside the case and is one of those huge annoying black "bricks."

The power connector is fussy to plug in (din connector) and delicate. On one of my drives the brick failed completely.

I fixed it by doing what most users do these days, I put the QPS drive in a PYRO external case, which has a built in power supply, and is about the same size as the original QPS case.