TDK Media veloCD 52x24x48 Internal EIDE CD-RW Drive

by TDK

Product Details

Product Manual [4.62mb PDF]

• Item Weight: 3 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000071A9N
• Item model number: AI-5200BX-B
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 9, 2002

Customer Reviews

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Noisy but competent, May 8, 2003

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Nuno C. F. Sil (Germantown, Maryland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: TDK Media veloCD 52x24x48 Internal EIDE CD-RW Drive (Personal Computers)

This drive is beautiful on the outside, but a bit noisy while reading or writing at any speed. The TDK software is unusable, but the Nero Express bundled is very usable and saves the day. The software package that came with my old HP was much better in every aspect.
Nevertheless, the drive itself works flawlessly and burns at top speed without errors reading from my 5400 rpm hard disk, even with files scatered all over the disk. It adjust to lower speeds automaticaly while burning to avoid buffer underruns and I've never lost a CDR with this drive.
All in all a good purchase, but the TDK software that comes with it needs a serious makeover. It is sluggish, confusing and not user friendly at all.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fast and reliable!, June 21, 2003

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This review is from: TDK Media veloCD 52x24x48 Internal EIDE CD-RW Drive (Personal Computers)

Okay, first off I had an old old old cd burner in which it took hours to complete one cd. After hours and hours of research in finding the best new cd burner out there, I came across this fast and reliable device. When I finally received my TDK CD-RW drive and I was amazed at how easy and fast this thing burned my cds. There were no errors, considering the fact that it was writing at an amazing 52X. I burned 4 cds within 5 mins!! Not only that, it comes with a software that you can add crossfading option. In case you dont know what that is, it is a program where it will burn individual tracks and fade it too the next track to make it more of a continuous mix. Simply a great buy. I totally recommend this product.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Practical, useful and nice looking, May 24, 2003

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Antonio Canas (Des Moines, Iowa United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: TDK Media veloCD 52x24x48 Internal EIDE CD-RW Drive (Personal Computers)

The transparent blue CD tray is cool. The unit installs very easily and works flawlessly. Burning at 52X means you'll be done in 2 and a half minutes. It works perfectly even when burning cheap Walmart CDRs that are only rated at 24X, I burn them at 52X and I have yet to screw one up. A great CDR.