MicroSolutions Backpack CDRW

Pros: Easy to install, portable, easy to make CDs
Cons: Causes me printer problems with Windows ME

"Hot Pluggable means you can use it in your car to record music," thus spake the computer genius in Office Depot who was trying to sell me this CD writer. "Just plug it into your cigarette lighter and you can record from the radio," he continued....

Pros: easy to install, portable, very very few problems/coasters due to burner
Cons: I've had problems burning at 4X

About a year ago, I was listening to a live recording of a 1992 Pearl Jam show I had on cassette. The show was incredible, showing off exactly why the band got the reputation they did in those days. There was just one problem: the hiss and...

Pros: Portable, lightweight
Cons: May not be compatible with your equipment

Microsolutions designed these drives specifically for laptop computers, but it is an answer to a prayer if you compute on a budget, but have multiple computers to support. Since the drive is not meant to be used with a laptop all the time, the drivers...

Pros: Affordable, ease of setup and daily use
Cons: A bit slow on burning CD's

I am like others here that have quite a collection of Zip Disks and found using my Zip Drive to be an expensive backup system.

I shopped and shopped and researched CDRW systems but was getting discouraged that my older Pentium 150 wasn't...

Pros: Excellent backup device
Cons: Don't forget the CD-RW formatting time

In need of a backup device and those 100 MB Zip drives aren't cutting it any more? Don't have a SCSI port or need to backup multiple machines? Want to create music CDs from all those MP3s you’ve downloaded off of Napster? MicroSolutions Backpack...

Pros: Great speed and price
Cons: could be faster :)

The Backpack CD-rewriter is one of my favorite buys of the year. It allows me to save all of my files for backup and storage. With the use of a CD ROM burner, I don’t have to keep all my music files and documents on my computer, I can now utilize CD’s...

Pros: Excellent Value, Features and Performance
Cons: none

In considering the variety of removable storage and backup devices, I was having difficulty in choosing which way to go. Zip 100? Zip 250? Orb 2.2? Superdisk 120? CD-R? CD-RW? These are a few of the options I considered.

Issues I considered...

Pros: Versatile
Cons: External so you have to put it somewhere

I wanted a CD burner to make some music CDs for use in the car. I went shopping for such a device and ended up purchasing the Micro Solution Backpack.

Types Available
There are two types of Backpacks available, one connects to the...

Pros: Easy to attach/disconnect
Cons: Very unreliable/inconsistent results

I obtained my Microsolutions Backpack from a colleague who had difficulties working it with their laptop. I am not sure what model laptop was being used, but they were frustrated enough to give me the Backpack. After an initial installation on my machine...

Pros: low price
Cons: big and heavy

I should have bought one of these sooner. If you are into music, you will love having this CD-RW.

I bought this CD-RW for several reasons:
1. Price ($213 from www.buy.com)
2. It hooks into my Windows95 laptop using parallel...

Pros: Fast, external, inexpensive, printer port
Cons: might need upgrade, bad tech. support.

I searched long and hard to find the best external cd rewriter. I found it in the backpack cd-rewriter. I bought my backpack 20x4x4 for $240 through egghead.com. Compared to the rest on the market at the time this external was both faster and far...

Pros: it is also a cd-rewriter, burns a full disc in 20 minutes
Cons: haven't been able to burn in DAO yet

I got the Micro Solutions Backpack cd-rewriter for Christmas, and although I asked for a Plextor (since I had heard so much good stuff about them), I am quite pleased with this burner.

This was very easy to install, all I had to do was plug...

Pros: Easy to setup with windows 95
Cons: Still looking for an idiot-proof installation.

I purchased this product for our group in our area. We needed to backup our laptops and desktop machines. Some of the machines had USB and some did not. All have PCMCIA, but many use both slots already. Hence the combination of the parallel and the...

Pros: Easy Installation, Easy Setup
Cons: 4X write/rewrite capability....2X write/rewrite reality

MicroSolutions BACKPACK cd-rewriter is the all in one package CD peripheral.

Features:
- 4X write/4X rewrite/20X read
- hot pluggable to printer parallel port(Win95/98)
- External model for...

Pros: Portability
Cons: Does not work with all computers, quits during copying

Installation of the software and hardware was easy. However, when I attempted to use the Backpack on my Dell Dimension XPS D300 I had a great deal of difficulty. A problem was encountered using both the CD-WR and CD modes. The Adaptec software was easy...