Iomega 31475 4x4x6 External USB CDRW Drive

by Iomega

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 11.8 x 10.8 x 6 inches ; 3.8 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 5.3 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000059ZZD
• Item model number: 31475
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (55 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #100 in Electronics > Computers & Add-Ons > External Components > Optical Drives > CD Drives
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 4, 1973

Product Description

Product Description

The Iomega CD-RW external USB drive lets you record, archive, share, and distribute up to 650 MB of data or 74 minutes of music on CD. Compatible with PC and Mac computers, the portable, hot-swappable drive features a USB interface, allowing quick and easy plug-and-play installation. With included software, the drive allows you to easily create a variety of customized files, photos, original music, and MP3 files.

With 4x write, 4x rewrite, and 6x read speeds, the drive provides a generous 2 MB buffer, 125-millisecond access times, and supports disc-at-once, track-at-once, multisession, and fixed and variable packet writing methods.

The drive comes with a one-year warranty.

Product Description

Item number 29708-45, Grading is cover/record: VG/EX using Goldmine standards. 1963,pic sleeve & 45,soc Please see seller profile for abbreviation descriptions.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

31 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It actually works well, November 4, 2001

By 

John R Chang (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Iomega 31475 4x4x6 External USB CDRW Drive (Personal Computers)

Iomega products aren't known for their reliability, so I was skeptical, but I decided to buy one because the price was right (and because it looks good). I happy to say that I haven't had any problems so far. I've burned a dozen CD-Rs in the past few weeks, both data and audio. What's more, it works perfectly with Mac OS X v10.1. I just plugged it in, put in a blank CD-R, and, to my amazement, it prepared the disc and was ready to burn! I didn't have to install any drivers or special software first. iTunes fully supports this drive, too, which makes burning audio CDs a breeze. Overall, my experience using this Iomega CD-RW drive with Mac OS X has been excellent.

25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Iomega Zip CDRW - USB, August 1, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Iomega 31475 4x4x6 External USB CDRW Drive (Personal Computers)

There are 3 simple steps to "burning CD's".

[1] Buy the Iomega Zip650 USP Drive; [2] Install the Software; [3] Connect it to a USB port.

For me, that is all it took to start creating CD's for my RoadWarrior {IBM ThinkPad}. The Adaptec Software is easy to use. The Iomega Drive is accurate and easily portable.

Since I do a lot of my work "on the road", it makes it easy to transfer data back to my Desktop system when I return. I have found no problems with the different drives that I use; being able to read from or write to CD-RW media formatted on either machine. I can make extra copies and snail-mail them to collaborators without any problem of lost data, (for less than a BUCK including postage). If we are at the same conference, I can burn the data and hand it to them in less than 15 minutes (sometimes more than 300 HiRes Digital Photos and 20 MB of data from a single weekend conference).

The speed of "burning" is better on this portable drive than on my multiple media desktop drive. (DVD-ROM/CD-ROM/CD-R/CD-RW internal IDE drive).

I still use a Iomega ZIP (100Mb) USB drive but am finding fewer times that I need it.

28 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars easy install, does the job, but a little slow, July 10, 2001

By A Customer

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This review is from: Iomega 31475 4x4x6 External USB CDRW Drive (Personal Computers)

If you want to burn audio CD's and make data CD's but don't want to install an internal CD-RW drive, then you might want to check out this item. Extremely easy/fast to install via the USB port. Burns CD's easily, but it's not the fastest. Comes with lots of software--Music Match jukebox and Adaptec CD wizard/Direct CD and some blank CDR's and a Verbatim CD-RW. Installs itself as a new drive. (Mine is drive F). Caution--for data discs--don't use generic CD-RW's. They will not work. Use the Verbatim DataLifePlus 2x-4x Rewritables. The unit requires you to format the CD-RW disc before the first use (which is an annoyance) but after that, all you do is drag and drop from Windows Explorer like you would with a diskette. Very Fast. No problem with any brand of CD-R's for audio. I've used various ones and all burned fine.