Sorry, NO CIGAR
Written: Aug 18 '00
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Pros: size and weight
Cons: poor drive damping, intermittant operation
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| roadwarrior's Full Review: Panasonic KXL-RW10A |
I was all excited about receiving my RW10A and after hooking it up found that it was unwilling to work consistently. After talking with tech support and the CDW techs, the folks at Panasonic said there are some little understood conflicts with current Adaptec software. The unit began choking and grinding by afternoon and largely due to significant vibration generated by it's rather poorly damped chassis, the programs I attempted to load kept displaying errors in the process. I was very dissapointed indeed at the drive's construction quality and disk stability. I replaced the unit with a Archos MiniCDRW unit the following day. Now I have a unit that is not only constructed in a superior fashion, but loaded and operated first time out. There are lights to indicate every level of operation, and it's drivers are the standard Windows98 drivers so nothing fancy required. The drive is quiet, and much to my amazement, actually faster to load and operate some rather video intensive programs I have. This is truly amazing considering that the Archos's PC card operates in 16bit mode, not the faster 32bit CardBus mode, but obviously the faster access claimed for the Archos (<120ms)is accurate. All things considered, I would recommend anyone to take a big pass on the Panasonic.
Recommended:
Yes
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roadwarrior
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Member: Lee Rothman
Location: Salt Lake City, UT.
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