Iomega Super DVD 4X Writer All-Format ( 32680 )

by Iomega

Product Details

• Item Weight: 5.2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 6 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B0000AZJYX
• Item model number: 32680
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 26, 2003

Product Description

Item #: IOM32680.
Customers also search for: iomega® USB 2.0 External Drive

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

36 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Product, December 14, 2003

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E. Yakabovicz "E. Yakabovicz" (Philadelphia, DE United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Iomega Super DVD 4X Writer All-Format ( 32680 ) (Electronics)

Iomega has done us all a service by providing this excellent piece of hardware that reads and writes all disc formats (DVD -R/W, +R/W, CD R/W) with little to no effort. Installation was easy and once I popped it into my machine it worked wonderfully.

Note, you must load the driver before installing the hardware.

The software provided is easy to use and does the job of burning any type of disc you can think of... This device is much cheaper in cost than say others, but there is no loss in any of the details or workings of this drive. I recommend it to anyone wanting to read or burn all formats of DVD or CD for music, data, or playing in your standard DVD player.

Promote now !!!

13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Iomega's Worst Product Ever, January 13, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Iomega Super DVD 4X Writer All-Format ( 32680 ) (Electronics)

Sadly, I'd have to state that the Super DVD is not worth the money or the effort. It is very particular regarding the DVD media it'll handle and the software it ships with is deplorable.

When using the "HotBurn Pro" software in the advanced mode, it fails to recognize the media inserted in the drive and gives the following warning: "Warning - the requested image is too large for the disk. Current image size is 2237757 sectors. Maximum safe size is 330000 sectors."

When burning multiple disks, "HotBurn Pro" will burn the first disk successfully and though it reports a successful burn on the subsequent disk, the data is not viewable in either the Super DVD or other DVD readers.

When formatting a DVD RW upon completion of the process both the "Start" and "Close" buttons are disabled leaving no mechanism to gracefully exit. Also upon completion, it locks up the computer forcing the need to manual reboot. Finally, the help files cannot be found when the "Help" button is clicked.

Do not buy.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect for home use., January 18, 2004

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T. Korsunsky "yuirain" (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Iomega Super DVD 4X Writer All-Format ( 32680 ) (Electronics)

Im very surprised to see bad reviews for this product, may be its because I only use my writer for homeuse. It works wonderful. So far I bought 2 types of very cheap DVD+RW disks and it worked with both of them. For most of the cheap disks it just asked to format them (~25-30minutes) and the formating software is included too. (if it doesnt read ur blank disk - right click on the disk in "my computer" and choose "format" option)
It takes most of the movie files, like mpegs, AVI and DivX3, it doesn't take some DivX files though. I used it to make Anime DVDs from my bittorent files - and they were perfect!!!
Software is wonderful too - it lets you trim the movies (if the movie is too large you can shorten it by couple of Min/Seconds), also it lets you put a picture of your choice in the background and put a background music. And you can make a slide show and have it as an extra on your DVD Menu - its really cool ^-^.
The only bad thing I encountered so far was it takes forever to make a DVD >_< but thats because its external.
Oh and you need to have a DVDplayer that is "DVD+RW compatible" (PSII wont play them)