Iomega ZipCD CD-RW Burner

Pros: It's great for backups and making music CDs.
Cons: There is no printed manual.

I bought my Iomega ZipCD External Drive in early 2001 (new on eBay for $171.50), because the disks of the of the Iomega Zip Drive that I was using were about $20 each, only had a capacity of 90-100MB, and often easily became corrupted and unreadable. My...

Pros: Iomega is known for making quality products, gets the job done
Cons: A bit pricey, purple is not my favorite color

The Install Procedure
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This external CDRW drive was really easy to install. You just pop the included install software in your computer and in a few clicks, it's installed and read to go. It comes with some Iomega Burning...

Pros: USB and portable
Cons: I can only get 2X speed write with my laptop.

I bought this external CDRW drive to use with my Compaq Presario Laptop. Once I figured out that I could only burn a CD at 2X speed with it, it has given me no problems.

I have found out with other USB devices and a USB hub that USB can be...

Pros: Easy to use, nice bundled software, attractive.
Cons: Burns audio files at only 2x on Macos, loose USB cable, tiny bit pricey

I bought the Iomega 6X/4X/4X ReWritable USB External Zip Drive as a Christmas present for my wife. It was going to be a clean and easy way for her to compile tons of scanned images of old magazine ads and lots of swing music. For the most part, it's...

Pros: Fairly small, cheap, mac compatible, works with Toast.
Cons: Very picky, extremely unreliable, TERRIBLE software.

I bought this at a pretty cheap price, and it worked pretty well on my Mac when I finally figured out what type of CDs it likes (Maxell 650s). Then, all of a sudden, one day it stopped working. Whenever I tried to burn a CD or CD-RW, it just said CD...

Pros: easy to setup
Cons: not easy to use!

Now I have been using the drive for more than a year. It is a terrible product: I have wasted many blank CDROMs. Buffer overrun problem is one of the major reasons. To avoid it (and it is not guaranteed!) you have to:
1. not using USB hub for the...

Pros: It works with Mac.
Cons: Unreliable. Expensive (but aren't all Mac peripherals?)

Setup with this was about as easy as any external USB cdrw. The options for Mac users are limited. And Roxy Toast doesn't have the same feature set for Macs as for PCs. Always frustrating.

The software did it's thing fine. I didn't find the...

Pros: Good product
Cons: Poor customer relations

IOMEGA products have a good reputation, but BEWARE if you purchase directly from the company and return an item for credit. Trying to get a refund is like pulling teeth, and they'll give you a huge runaround while glibly promising to 'investigate' the matter. It's a shame that a company with such a strong product line should needlessly trash their customer relations just to improve their short-term cash position.

Pros: external, didn't have to take apart computer to install.
Cons: slow, errors everywhere, some cd types don't work.

got it two years ago. didn't work from the beginning. i spent a few weeks contacting their tech department through email...in the end they decided that it was the cd's i was using (standard memorex), that messed up the burner.
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i got new cd's...and it started to work. but only everyother time, it would give me errors some of the time...on the start, halfway through, at the end...it was pretty much random. when a cd would work...it would take about 1/2 an hour to make. awful.
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i just got a laptop, and the cd burner on here burns 5 times as fast, and it doesn't give me any errors.
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don't buy this. get something internal, it'll be faster & won't give you as many problems.
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hope i helped.