Memorex External CD-RW Burner

[drummerguy]

I tried searching for info. about this drive on the forums and elsewhere, but I couldn't find anything about it. Can anyone speak for the performance/reliability of this drive? It is a Memorex External USB burner. Here is a link: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp ... pe=product

Thanks in advance,
drummerguy

[PhotoJim]

This isn't a direct answer to your question, but I just bought the TDK VeloCD 52-24-48 external USB CD burner from tigerdirect ($53.99 Cdn, probably $40-ish US from the US site). I'm happy with it - *with* Windows XP. I can't get it to work with my Windows 98SE machines, although I suspect that it might be a Win98SE/USB 1.1 incompatibility because I seem to be able to find users of this drive that have USB 2.0 and Win98SE and can get things to work. I'm going to try a USB 2.0 card in one of the machines in question (the other is a laptop) to see if that helps.

With XP and USB 2.0, the drive is very fast, very quiet and very fast at ripping. I'd give it serious consideration.