Sony 24x External CD-RW Drive ( CRX1750U/A2 )

by Sony

Product Details

• Item Weight: 6 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 6 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000064187
• Item model number: CRX1750U/A2
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 28, 2002

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Sony delivers high-performance CD burning with its CRX1750U/A2 external USB 2.0 CD-RW drive for both Windows PCs or Macintosh computers. The CRX1750U/A2 supports ultra-fast 24x/10x/40x (maximum) performance and can burn a full CD in less than four minutes.

Included is Sony's Power-Burn CD-recording management system. Power-Burn technology takes the worry out of CD burning by reducing buffer underrun and optimizing the burn to the brand and type of CD-R/RW disc bring used. The CRX1750U/A2 comes with a generous suite of software tools to help you manage and edit digital pictures and video, listen to and record your own original digital music, and even back up your PC files.

The drive supports both USB 2.0 and i.Link connections (IEEE1394/FireWire-compatible).

What's in the Box
External disc drive, AC power adapter, user's manual, warranty information, USB cable, CD-ROM containing: B's Clip (Windows), lets you drag and drop files and folders to a CD-RW disc as easily as to a floppy disk or hard drive; B's Recorder Gold (Macintosh and Windows), lets you create back-up copies of CDs as well as customized video, music, and data CDs from various file formats; ArcSoft PhotoBase (Macintosh and Windows), lets you create image, video, and audio albums for easy management, share files in the form of slide shows, Web presentations, or video postcards, and to store multimedia files on CDs; ArcSoft PhotoStudio 2000 (Macintosh and Windows), lets you edit digital images with a selection of special effects and enhancements; ArcSoft VideoImpression (Macintosh and Windows), offers a quick and easy way to create and edit videos and image files and make desktop video productions; MUSICMATCH Jukebox (Windows), a complete music system to play, record, and organize music with a guide to thousands of streams of personalized music programming; and Dantz Development's Retrospect Express (Macintosh and Windows), provides you with full-featured unattended backup and disaster recovery capability.

Product Description

Sony advances the state-of-the-art for CD burning with its first CD-RW drive for USB 2.0 equipped PCs or Mac« computers. This CD-RW drive supports ultra-fast 24X/10X/40X performance and can create a full CD in under 4 minutes. When connected to a USB 1.1 system, it will perform at 4X/4X/6X max. Now you manage and edit digital pictures and video, listen to and record your own original digital music, and even back up your PC!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

64 of 67 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What a great burner, July 8, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Sony 24x External CD-RW Drive ( CRX1750U/A2 ) (Personal Computers)

This is my second cd-rw drive, and my other one doesn't even compare to this one. My old burner took 25 minutes to burn a cd at the minimum, but my sony drive takes 5 minutes maximum. It makes cd burning alot easier.
Not only is this drive fast , but it is reliable too. I have burned about 20 cds so far and not one of them have had a single skip or messup of any sort.
It was very easy to install too. I took it out of the box, hooked it up, loaded the software, and I had already begun burning cds about half an hour after receiving the package.
I am extremely pleased with this product.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A real bargain quality-wise!, March 25, 2003

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byers_lonegun_girl "byers_lonegun_girl" (New England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sony 24x External CD-RW Drive ( CRX1750U/A2 ) (Personal Computers)

My Mother got me this burner for Christmas, and no sooner did I take it out of the package and install the software did I start burning CD's. It is so easy, even the most inept computer person can do it! The speed and quality is remarkable, as is the price.

The burner software program it comes with is simple, and yet does nearly everything that you would expect it to do. You can create image files of CD's so that you can burn them at a later date, you can copy disk to disk, create data cd's, music cd's, VCD's, virtually anything and everything and it is presented in a way in which someone with no computer experience would easily understand.

I've literally burned over 500 CD's already and rarely do I have a bad burn. Most of the time it is because I used a cheap CDR (most likely the disc was bad) or I had too many things going on at once and my computer was lagging.

IF you're looking for a good quality, easy to use external CDR drive that is great in price, this is your best choice!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars DO NOT BUY!!!, April 27, 2003

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buckeyes (Columbus, OH United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sony 24x External CD-RW Drive ( CRX1750U/A2 ) (Personal Computers)

I bought it in May 2002 and now it starts to give me problem. So I called the service center and I was put off for numerous times. The technician is absolutely lack of knowledge and does not offer any help except keep on asking you to reinstall the system or upgrade compter etc. etc. Also they ask you to use ONLY SONY CDRs which I think is junk. SONY is doing everything to let the warranty expire! Still keep on fighting to get it repaired before my warranty expires.
Also do not buy a SONY HDTV! One trainer from a Statistics Software company told me that Customer Report rated SONY's product so bad that SONY were seeking help from their company to sue CR. Of course SONY faliled because the data, no matter how they manipulate it, suggests SONY is bad. Think twice if you want to buy SONY!!!