Philips PC 400 Series External USB

Pros: Fast, USB connection for ease of mobility
Cons: USB/SCSI cable driver may need to be loaded manually (some shipped with bad cables)

Note: Important update at the bottom of the page concerning a problem with the USB/SCSI cable.

The Philips PC400 External USB CDRW drive is a fine device and great if you have a laptop or plan on moving it from computer to computer. It...

Pros: Does the job it was intended to do
Cons: This unit could be a little less of a nuisance at times

I bought the Philips 400 drive back in July, 2000, after I decided that I needed a backup device for my computers. I chose the Philips based on some positive reviews I had read on the internet, but I am now amazed at how much can be left out of those...

Pros: If you like to have a portable burner and use one of your USB ports
Cons: If you like tech support, go for it!

This is my first time on epinions, but I noticed there were two POSITIVE reviews for this burner. Well, let me add my experience with this demon machine!

I needed to get a burner so I could start doing efficient backups of my data from...

Pros: After working out problems burner does work like expected
Cons: NO SOFTWARE RECOGNIZES DRIVE!!!!!!

I bought a refurbished external Philips CDRW400 series CD burner off of Ebay. (USB) A few days later, and after paying, I read the reviews here on Epinions. The terrible reviews made me believe that the product was useless, which was terrible for me...

Pros: LOOKS NICE
Cons: DOESN'T GET recognized by Windows

I had an amazingly awful experience with all my CD burners.
I am into music big time and Napster is my best friend, if you know what I mean, so, I wanted to have a nice external CD burner for making my own music remixes and share them with my...

Pros: It's a USB drive, and you may get a good unit
Cons: You'll most likely get a bad one, and customer support is unstable

Well, if you read my "Tracking Following Errors?" review, you know that I was waiting for my third drive to come back in.

Well, it finally came back in! I immedidately carefully, took it out of it's packaging and installed it onto my laptop....

Pros: I learned a lot about speeding up my computer.
Cons: Even with my newfound knowledge, this machine never worked.

After fighting to get this CD writer to burn a CD successfully for a week, I was told by customer service to return it. He was stumped. I was stumped. I had called them 4 times.

My computer, a Compaq Presario with 400 MHz and 64MB RAM, is...

Pros: None excpet looks
Cons: Does Not work!

What a joke! Listen I'm not a computer expert but I know enough to get me by..

I did a little studying up before I purchased a Cd rewriter.. unfortunately I forgot epinions.

This piece of junk (junk stressed) is nothing but a...

Pros: Ease of Use! Does the Job
Cons: USB Software hard to install. Instructions on install could be better!

I had to write this only because after I bought my PCRW464K47 on ebay I read these reviews and PANICKED!!I got the unit and expected after reading these reviews that I wasted my money. My first attempt on installation did not work. The USB cable has it's...

Pros: Easy to setup and use, good price.
Cons: Slower than some of the newer drives, but for the price...

I just got my new Philips CD-RW and I can hardly believe how easy it was to set up. Just plug in the USB and load the disk with required drivers. That's it! Compared to my old burner, this was a real cinch.

This CD-RW writes and rewrites at 4X...

Pros: Its USB so its easy to connect it
Cons: It made more "coasters" than it did CDs

This was my first experience with a cd burner. Very disappointing. The software that comes with it (EasyCd) is terrible and caused the "blue screen of death" many times over! And its hard to uninstall. Tried many other burner softwares but I burned...

Pros: good looks, plug and play USB connectivity
Cons: difficult to install, bad technical support from philips

Having read that this is a USB based cd rw writer, i went in and bought it from a auction site. Infact I bought two writer of same model philips 400 series.
To my astonishment, when i plugged in the AC adapter for the both of these writers, one was...