Sony CRX320AE/U 52X/32X/52X CD-RW and 16X DVD-ROM Internal ATAPI EIDE Combo Drive

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 6 x 7 x 2 inches ; 5 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0009HAI4W
• Item model number: CRX320AE/U
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
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• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 15, 2005

Product Description

Product Description
52X/32X/52X CD-RW and 16X DVD-ROM Internal ATAPI EIDE Combo Drive with Buffer Underrun Protection. Package Contents: 1 CD-RW & DVD-ROM Combo Drive, Mounting screws, IDE Flat cable, Software cd, Warranty card, Quick-start poster, user's manual , interchangeable bezels (beige attached, black bezel kit inside box) *includes 10 free music downloads from Sony Connect. Software Contents: Nero Burning ROM 6.0, Nero InCD 4.0, Nero Showtime 2.0

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Love it!, March 8, 2006

By	C. Keeney (Magnet, IN USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I just love this cd burner/dvd rom!!!!
I bought it for my kid so she could play a dvd-rom game but I had always wanted to try burning my own music cds.
Well I am soooo pleased. Sony has made this so EASY. It was easy to install and plenty of instructions and with diagrams for the mechanically uninclined. I was intimidated but I got it in, and it worked right away.
Sony gives you some free music downloads so I went there right away to try it out. You have to download their software which took me a long time because I have a dial up connection, but it was worth it. You pick your song and download, which takes 15 minutes at dialup speed. Then you transfer it right to the cd. Bam! I got in a hurry and used a cd-r (which is not erasable) and only put two songs on the cd. After I took it out and played the songs it wouldn't let me put any more on the cd. So I need to wait until I have all my songs downloaded before I burn them to cd. I still have some things to learn.
Sony gives you software so that you can make jacket covers for the cd and to make a track listing. Nothing fancy but I liked it.
You can watch dvd's on your computer and you can drag and drop information on your hard drive to a cd so that your info is backed up. I love that too, having a way to back up my photos and other info.
You can also create video CDs.

(...)I'm very happy with my Sony products!

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good solid product under Windows XP and Vista, March 13, 2007

By	Scott Georgens (Encinitas, CA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Been using this drive for about a month or so now, and have no complaints. Drive received was exactly what I expected from the description on Amazon. Used this to upgrade a CD drive. Installation for me was painless, and no issues with with driver installation during the initial setup under Windows XP Pro SP2. I recently did a clean install of my system moving up to Vista Ultimate, and the Vista-loaded drivers for this drive work just fine.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars No driver update by Sony for this product, November 15, 2007

By	Forest7 - See all my reviews

I bought this dvd burner August 2007 from Amazon on the basis of these reviews. The burner worked fine, but then it stopped being able to work with any programs to burn disks. It will play media fine, but no longer record. It may be the device itself, but it also could be the software driver. When I went to download an updated driver, I found others online had the same problem with this Sony dvd burner that I did. And I found like they did, that Sony did not support the product with updated software drivers.

What I am saying is, before you buy a dvd player/burner make sure that the company supports their product by providing software drivers for it. I am looking for a new burner, and the next one I buy will be from a company that supports their products.