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QPS QPCDRW161040FEM External 16x10x40 FireWire CD-RW Drive
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Most Helpful First | Newest First | + Share3 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
This company is a joke!
(1 out of 5) by Amazon Customer on Apr 25, 2002 (University Heights, OH United States)I have a QPS burner and it has been nothing but trouble. It throws errors all of the time and is basically useless. I have tried to contact the company numerous times for help and technical support and they have never responded. A friend of mine who used to work for a large electronics store told me this company has a reputation for poor product support and customer service.
8 of 76 people found the following review helpful:
Why go external?
(2 out of 5) by John Harrold on Oct 10, 2001 (USA)I don't see any reason to use external CD burners as apposed to internals. A few things to consider:
1. Externals cost significantly more than internals.
2. Externals are most often larger and heavier than internal (with a few exceptions) making them actually less portable.
3. With externals, you need to carry wires around. Internals use standardized wires. Every computer has an IDE cable and a power cable from the power supply. Try asking your friends if they have a spare FireWire cable and AC adapter with the right voltage to hook up your CD-Burner with.
4. Externals often require drive-specific windows drivers. With internals, windows uses it's standard IDE CD-ROM drives and recognizes the drive on boot-up. all you need to install is CD-Burning software.
1. Externals cost significantly more than internals.
2. Externals are most often larger and heavier than internal (with a few exceptions) making them actually less portable.
3. With externals, you need to carry wires around. Internals use standardized wires. Every computer has an IDE cable and a power cable from the power supply. Try asking your friends if they have a spare FireWire cable and AC adapter with the right voltage to hook up your CD-Burner with.
4. Externals often require drive-specific windows drivers. With internals, windows uses it's standard IDE CD-ROM drives and recognizes the drive on boot-up. all you need to install is CD-Burning software.