Customer Reviews

Hewlett Packard CD-Writer C4493B 9350i 10x4x32 Internal EIDE Kit

5 star:		(12)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

I really like the HP writer series. I own a 9100i myself, and I have friends who own the newer models. They are all dependable. I have had very few problems with burning a CD with errors. These writers have the ability to 'test' the CD to be sure not to cause errors (which would be wasting a CD-R), so this feature is nice. The software they come with are easy to install, and easy to learn. It was a Cd wizzard to walk anyone through making a CD. So for all of you who have trouble figuring software out, have not fear, this one's covered. As far as I've seen it only has one drawback: They do not recognize 700MB CDs. You can use them, but it will only lety you use up to 650 MB. All in all, it's a great product. Hewlett Packard has always had reliable products to me. The price may be a little high, but for a product that you know won't let you down, I didnt' hesitate.

I have an HP printer, HP Scanner, and this HP CDRW. None of the HP products has disappointed me. This CDWR comes with a big installation guide. So setting it up should be just a breeze. Also, recording a whole audio cd takes no more than 10 mins. A must for all music lover. Reason for 4 stars out of 5, the price is a little high. But if you want new high tech toys, you got to pay the price!!!

The one I've used is one I didn't install, but having installed other CDRW's before, this one should be easy. HP is consumer oriented and my experience with their products is that they are easy to install and work well. That said, I wouldn't use this unit if you are solely interested in burning music CDs, either copying entire CDs or copying to disk and then compiling your favorite songs, for example, to another CD. I've used the HP software included here, but found the Nero burning software better. However, even with Nero, I still found skips on ultimate burned CD. I have no experience burning MP3s to CDs, so see other reviews for that.

Data CDs are another story. I have had no problems and routinely back up on CDRW critical data. I rarely use the 3.5 floppy anymore and probably won't use it unless someone else has to have a floppy. For the price it's unbeatable, but if you want one for music I would recommend Yamaha CDRWs.

Well, I got this for Christmas, and I must say it's wonderful. Installation was easy, it took me about 45 minutes total with software and all. It comes with a CD that you can put into your existing CD-ROM drive before you install the CD-Writer that has a complete video that actually shows you step by step on how to install it. All you have to do is follow the instructions in the video and it works fine. As far as performance, it converted 19 mp3's to wave files and burned them to a CD-R it a little over 7 minutes. Wonderful product by HP!

This CD-R/W writer is excellent. I've burned 15 different CDs today just testing it out from my older burner (Yamaha 2x2x16 (Which I will say still works flawlessly, it was just old)), and have had zero bad burns. Contrary to some of the reviews here, there aren't problems with audio ticks and it can burn 80 minute CDs just fine. HP's SOFTWARE, however, does limit you to 74 minutes. But if you use a GOOD cd burning software package, like Roxio Easy CD Pro 5, you can do 80 minute CD's just fine. My suspicion with audio CD's with audible ticks is one of four things: The CD's are not rated for 10x burning (common problem)- make sure you buy CD's rated for at least 12x burning with drives like this, the CD's are poor quality- my advice is stay away from cheap Memorex CD's for audio... TDK spindles seem to be fine, the computer's transfer speed may not have been high enough- try using DMA, and lastly, don't do anything while you're burning- you can slow the machine down enough that a tick and be placed on the CD accidentally. Also beware that some CD players simply might not like burned CDs. My car CD player doesn't like the yellow-green ones (Memorex in particular) or the black ones... the CD's with a true blue base seem to work best overall.

And FYI for everyone: MP3's DO NOT degrade per download. They are digital files, they CANNOT degrade. Cassette tapes can degrade when copying as can VCR tapes... but they're not digital files... digital files do not lose quality no matter HOW many times they are copied. Sorry... just had to put that out there.

I installed the product in about 20 minutes. The hardest part was taking the cover off of the computer. The CD-writer works great. I burned my first CD in about 15 minutes. Easy for even beginners to use. The CD-labeler which comes with it is great. Makes very professional looking labels that go on absolutely perfectly. I would definitely recommend this product to all music lovers.

I just installed the drive easily and with to problems. Very easy to use and did not run into any problems after making 10 CD's so far. Software that comes with this drive is great too. HP MY CD software needs updating though. You can go to HP website to download the new version.

All in all, very happy.

great burner with 10X writing speed...much better than other competiter on the market` it beats it's own cousion of 9110i too! great product...highly recommended!

I chose this as a good fit for my needs. I did not need it to be super fast as I don't expect to do burn all the time.

Install of internal hardware is straight forward.

The software makes moving files as easy as it is between the hard drive and a floppy.

Pleased with purchase.

I installed Windows XP Upgrade (from 98) a few weeks ago. Then I bought my first CD-RW. After a 256 upgrade, I've got 320MB of Ram. plenty with room to spare. My first CD was an audio CD for my daughter. ripped a few CDs onto the PC and put them on a CD-R. I never thought it would be that easy. hardest part was picking the songs I wanted on the disk! and for under $50, you can't go wrong.