Jon L. JacobiLG Electronics CED-8120BThe CED-8120B offers both 12X CD-R write speed
and excellent all-around read performance for a very reasonable price. The
drive burned our 650MB image file in 7 minutes, 13 seconds, and it wrote our
100MB test folder to CD-RW in 1 minute, 54 seconds--times that compare well
with those of similarly rated drives.
This 12X/8X/32X model is also one of the quietest drives we've
tested and has an exceptionally sturdy tray mechanism. The CED-8120B includes
detailed manuals for the hardware and software, plus something almost unheard
of these days: DOS drivers on floppy disk. Adaptec's Easy CD Creator 4.02 and
DirectCD 3.01 handle the CD-mastering and packet-writing tasks.
The
drive includes no buffer underrun compensation technology, such as Sanyo's
Burn-Proof or Ricoh's JustLink. However, the large 8MB buffer seemed to help us
avoid ruining discs during our testing.Toll-free technical support is available for 12
hours on weekdays only. The CED-8120B carries an industry-standard one-year
warranty.This quiet, sturdy drive features excellent
overall performance and value, and it should deftly handle most any task thrown
at it.14012X/8X/32X, IDE, internal, 8MB buffer,
Adaptec Easy CD Creator 4.02 and Adaptec DirectCD 3.01; one-year warranty,
toll-free support for 12 hours weekdays.140www.lgeus.com800/243-0000
