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LG Electronics 32X/12X/8X Rewritable Eide/atap Ced-8120bi 8mb

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LG Electronics 32X/12X/8X Rewritable Eide/atap Ced-8120bi 8mb Review

This quiet, sturdy drive features excellent overall performance and value.

WHAT'S HOT: The 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.

WHAT'S NOT: 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.

WHAT ELSE: Toll-free technical support is available for 12 hours on weekdays only. The CED-8120B carries an industry-standard one-year warranty.

BEST USE: This quiet, sturdy drive features excellent overall performance and value, and it should deftly handle most any task thrown at it.


SUMMARY
LG Electronics CED-8120B



12X/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.

$140
800/243-0000
www.lgeus.com

User Reviews for LG Electronics 32X/12X/8X Rewritable Eide/atap Ced-8120bi 8mb

  • Reviewed by: sproux

    Duration of ownership:

    Strengths: Quiet, smooth, reliable, huge buffer, flawless audio extraction. Works fine on my Pentium 133.

    Weaknesses: 12x8x32 is no longer one of the fastest drives. I cannot burn reliably over 4x on my Pentium 133, although its full 12x speed can be achieved easily on a P3-800.

    Overall Evaluation: I bought this drive because the University of Colorado, where I work, had these drives OEM installed on all our new P3-800 computers. I had never heard of LG before, but I was amazed at these drives. Why? 1. Quiet. This drive will not make enough noise to disturb you unless you're in a studio. 2. Fast. The read performance is excellent. I would buy this drive just for how good of a CD-ROM drive it is! Discs spin up fast, DAE is fast, everything is fast. The drive is super-reliable too; I've never had a problem. 3. Great DAE. Extracted audio is perfect, with no clicks, pops, or other flaws. I would happily recommend this drive for ripping and copying audio CDs. 4. Huge 8MB buffer. The drive does not have BURN-PROOF technology, but the massive buffer prevents most buffer underruns. 5. Good manual and software. The included manual is very thorough and well-illustrated. Easy CD Creator and DirectCD are included. Based on 9 months of superb experience with these LG burners and some similar LG CD-ROM drives, I was convinced enough to buy one myself. So I leaped at the opportunity when I saw one at Best Buy for $70. This drive was for my old Pentium 133, so I can't use all the write speeds, but it works great at 4x. And I know from experience at work that it works well at the higher speeds too. For $70, you can't go wrong!

  • Reviewed by: dcodo

    Duration of ownership:

    Strengths: Very easy to install, very good performance for most users and low price.

    Weaknesses: Can't burn in 1x or 2x, you have to got a very good system to burn audio in 12x (without make images), not best softwares.

    Overall Evaluation: I have a PII 233, 96MB, HD Fireball Plus As 20GB, a Creative CDRom 24x and I just bought my LG 8120. I put it alone in IDE 2 as master, and let the HD and the CDRom in IDE 1. The BIOS recognized it very quickly, and it worked perfectly at Windows. Then I installed the softwares. The DirectCD (for CDRW) worked very well, but I coudn't open the Easy CD Creator (I don't know why yet). So I decided to use Nero and it worked perfectly!! It recognized the CD Recorder with it's all possible speeds and then I could start burning... I've made until now 5 CDs. A data cd from image at 12x, an audio cd from image at 12x, and two audio cds directly (without images) at 8x. And I lost one trying to burn audio directly at 12x. The 8MB buffer was not sufficient for that. So, this is my experience with this drive for now. I can surely say that it's a great drive and that it works very well for most recording types. I'm very happy with my shop now and expect continue to be for a long time. Hope this could help somebody. (I thought other reviews on the net very usefull ) Thanks for reading and, please, forgive my english.

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