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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Underpowerd PC, and doing fine!,
By Stochastic "Stochastic" (Mexico City, Mexico) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Hp Dvd640i Dvd+ Double-layer Lightscribe Drive (Personal Computers)
-----------------T I M E W A R P----------------Not that it matters, over three years later when this model is not commerically available, but it's a total champ!!! I LOVE this drive!!! If you see it on Ebay, snap it up! It now (March 2008) sits in a state-of-the-art workstation. Was a trooper, is a trooper, and I'm counting on it going all Energizer Bunny on me! And yes, by now I've burned 7 or 8 200-disk Case Logics worth of DVDs (I'm a photographer). If anything, it snaps through DVDs even faster than CDs! -------------------------------------------------- Original review: I just installed this wonder on a puny P2 400 MHz w/128Mb, replacing a drive I thought rocked (an LG CD-RW model GCE-8526B), till THIS drive happened! What I hadn't realized when I ordered (or wasn't paying attention) is that in order to BURN DVDs, requirements want a minimum of a P3 800 (P4 recommended) and 256 Mb RAM (a Gig recommended). It also wants circa 2X your blank DVDs space in available Hard Drive space, I suppose for image and temporary files (circa 9 Gigs for a 4.7 Gb DVD, twice that for a double-layer). No worries in the meantime, as far as viewing DVDs and buning CD's... in fact: My old DVD player being dead, I go ahead and install it in place of that LG, crossing my fingers this will give me DVD player + CD-RW burner functionality. Right on! Not only does it play DVDs beautifully, it writes CD-R's like 10 or 15 times faster than my old 52X 32X 52X LG!* Reason being, it goes straight from files to disk, if it doesn't need to mess with an image, it doesn't! I burned 630+ Mb in 6 minutes total (on a PII 400!). I LOVE THIS DRIVE! It also features LightScribe, which laser-burns graphics/type labels straight onto compatible blank disks, and is double-layer burning compatible (over 8 Gigs/disc) on double layer blanks. Now all I need's a new motherboard, a processor, some RAM, and I'm in the DVD burning pipe... I haven't tried to burn a DVD, but I'm so way under the requirements, if I try it will be jpegs from my camera or normal-sized MP3s. If I manage to burn a video DVD with this hardware set up, trust me, I'll post it! *The 128 Mb RAM may have forced me into imaging with the LG. Maybe people with my setup and 1Gb RAM can burn that fast or faster... I wouldn't know. Stochastic in México, D.F. MEXICO
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
So far, okay,
By Zoopax (STL Missouri USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Hp Dvd640i Dvd+ Double-layer Lightscribe Drive (Personal Computers)
I can't say that I'm overwhelmed with joy when I buy a DVD burner and the manufacturer states you can write DVD-Rs but when you actually use the included software it strongly suggests DVD+R, DVD+RW, and DVD+R DL. If the manufacturer says it'll burn DVD-R, I'll try it with Nero. Thus far: three DVD-R coasters when burning at 2.4x, three solid DVD+R burns however. I'm using Verbatim media.What's my beef with DVD-R vs DVD+R? DVD-R is compatible with 93% of existing DVD players. That number drops to 89% for DVD+R. I just want what's advertised. This is a "living review". I will certainly revise it once I've spent more time with it and make sure that I have all firmware revisions installed. Update: After loading the latest drivers I was able to burn DVD-R's. However, if you need to move a large file and use cheap CDRs for transporting, you might have problems. My "factory" CDRW burner on my Dell easily used the cheaper media but this won't touch it. 10 failed CDR burns at 2x. Still a decent product but not the cat's meow...
1.0 out of 5 stars
Where did Lightscribe go?,
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This review is from: Hp Dvd640i Dvd+ Double-layer Lightscribe Drive (Personal Computers)
I was really, excited about Lightscribe. As I bought my HP, several other manufacturer's were coming out with Lightscribe burners too. The DVD 640i was for a new computer build. Never got around to burning a dvd, only loaded the operating system and programs. A couple months later I was looking at a driver cd and left it in the dvd overnight. When I tried to access the dvd the next day, it wouldn't open or read the cd. Never did get my cd back.Still, I wanted Lightscribe, so I looked for a replacement dvd burner. Couldn't find Lightscribe available anywhere except on HP's website. Was this a great concept but bad execution?
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