Pacific Digital 52x24x52 Internal IDE CD-RW Drive

by Pacific Digital

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000086TJG
• Item model number: U-30146
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 6, 2003

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The Mach52 is a high-speed 52x24x52 internal IDE/ATAPI CD-RW drive. The kit includes Nero 5.5 CD recording software, cables, and one blank CD recording disc. The Mach52 writes to CD-R at the super-fast 52x speeds, to high-speed CD-RW media at fast 24x speeds, and reads CD-ROMs at 52x speeds. To improve reliability and performance, the Pacific Digital Mach52 is equipped with intelligent buffer management technology, which automatically checks media quality to ensure a successful writing session and data reliability.

The Mach52 is compatible with Windows 98 SE, 2000, Me, NT SP3 or SP5, and XP.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not the One to Buy. Below Average Hardware. Look Elsewhere., June 1, 2004

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Mark "Technology, Music and Movies" (East Coast) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pacific Digital 52x24x52 Internal IDE CD-RW Drive (Personal Computers)

Pacific Digital is simply not the company to purchase a CDRW from. It's as simple as that. Whatever speed you want, whether internal or external, please look elsewhere.

[]Their support is non-existant. Luckily I am an advanced user and I can configure things without manuals. For those who don't consider themselves an "advanced user," be prepared to be frustrated!

Warranties are meaningless. These units are only good for occasional use. If you burn a lot, your unit WILL break. It's not a question of 'if,' it's a question of 'when.' The internal hardware mechanics are simply cheaply put together.

That said, when the unit works, it's ok. One still does recieve some bad burns, even with buffer underun protection. But it does read CDs and every once in a while will perform a successful burn.

Nero is nero, no matter what the drive. I think the software is comparably as good as Roxio. However other than the disk copy utility, the CD compilation and custom burning software is not as good. You might want some documentation on what kind of disk format to make your custom burns in. Good luck finding it. This drive doesn't come with it.

Save yourself some grief and invest in another drive.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Burns like a charm!!, February 10, 2004

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Tony Tolmich (seattle, wa United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pacific Digital 52x24x52 Internal IDE CD-RW Drive (Personal Computers)

Thanks for the Cd Burner....even installed my older version of EZ CD Creator 5 platinum and downloaded the updates from ez cd creator web site and recognizes the burner. Delivered brand new in the box ,on time . Thanks!

5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Problems with both the drive and the Nero 5.5 software, August 23, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Pacific Digital 52x24x52 Internal IDE CD-RW Drive (Personal Computers)

Drive installed very easy...so did software. However, Nero 5.5 software that was packaged with it wouldn't recognize the drive, although my machine running Windows ME did. Audio CD's that play well on my CD Rom skipped, hung up, repeated tracks when played on the Pacific Digital drive: it appears that the drive is as defective as the Nero software....after five (5) frustrating days, I gave up and returned both for a refund. First item I've ever purchased from Amazon that I had to return.