Customer Reviews

Hewlett Packard 9900ci Internal 12x10x32x8 CD-RW with DVD ROM Drive

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The HP 9900CI is a great CD Burner and DVD Player Combined. This internal drive is easy to install (HP provides a large poster to help with installation along with the manual.) it is also very easy to use after installation thanks to the great software included. HP My CD is a great way to quickly copy a CD or burn some files off your hard drive. Roxio CD allows the CD to be used like any other drive by dragging and dropping files onto the CD. This drive also comes with music generating software (ACID) and a photo, video editing package, and I'm likely leaving something else out as well. The Burner performs great, completing a full 700MB CD in under 7 minutes (when copying from the hard drive). And the DVD drive is complimented by a very nice software DVD Player. All in all this is two great products put into one. Highly Recommended.

The drive works very well and it's quite fast, though not really any faster than the DVD-ROM drive it replaced (which was the piece of junk that came with my Dell PC). Spinup is fast, and the drive is very responsive, though not as fast as I had expected once it gets up to speed.

I would say I love it except it sounds like a vacuum cleaner when it runs. Compounding this is the fact that it has a longer than average spindown time. The Sony CD-RW drive in the bay below it is dead quiet and it's just as fast, so I'm not sure why the HP is so loud. If it were quieter, I would give it 5 stars.

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Of course, mine waited almost 6 months to die permanently, and has always had problems writing CDRs that my other players and drives could read reliably. HP is perfectly willing to fix it for me, assuming I can dig out the receipts, but I'll still be out the drive for the time to send it in and hope it comes back working and it will STILL be a piece of junk. How annoying.

And even these days, how often do you see a product that vanishes in under a year from release, at least a product like this with some demand...?

This drive has worked well consistently since Oct 2001 with daily personal use. I have no indication that it won't continue to perform well in the future.

the hp 9900 drive is amongst the few not tainted by nero burning software WITH the drivers for your cdwr built into its database. the down fall is that you can't use any nero drives with roxio software unless you get a masters degree in software deciphering.
what ever happen to the old plug and play like the 9900???