Creative CD-RW Blaster 8432

I had been wanting to buy a CD writer for a long time. When i finally went to the the local electronics shop and asked what CD writer they had, they told me they were at the end of one of their Order cycles, and so they were out of practically all brands of CD writer. i had recently bought a new Handy Cam and wanted to convert the tapes onto CD's, so i asked them, what exactly they had, and they told me, the only thing they had were the Creative CR-RW Blaster 8432. I had no choice and putting aside what my friends had told me about the unreliability of Creative CD writers, i bought it for just under a $40. Installation was quite simple and easy, and way very ...  Read the complete review

Had this drive for a while, and so far it's given me lots of quick and reliable service. If you're not nerdy, you may need some help setting it up, as in common with all CD-writers it ideally needs to have its own IDE channel, since too much activity on the channel could cause failed writes, and wasted CD-R disks. It works beautifully on my setup, and the software supplied (Nero 4.0 with free online upgrade to version 5) is powerful and flexible. I've been using Memorex 700MB CD-R's so far without any problems. It even writes funny formats like Video CD's as standard - the software supplied by other manufacturers often ...  Read the complete review

After owning a Creative CD-RW Blaster 8432 for a couple of months, I can safely say that I will never be buying a Creative CR writing piece of equipment. Not only is the rewriter pretty slow in my opinion, but it is very unreliable. To this date I have wasted 65 CDs, and before you tut for thinking I should have stopped, everytime I was told a different method to try by Creative. The drive comes with Adaptec DirectCD software, and together these two products leave you with a vast collection of useless CDs. I have tried all sorts of different things to put on CDs, audio, data and video. Only three CDs have I ever managed to burn correctly. When I tried ...  Read the complete review

i first wanted one of these peices of hardware after seeing the capabiliites of one at my best friends house. there are endless amouns of jobs that this is capable of and there are endless amounts of things you can copy depending on the CD RW software tha tyou have. some software can copy anything regardless of copyright laws. i reccommed this model to any one looking to buy a CD writer. the best on the market. the endless features include being able tto customize software cds and audio cds, its the one to buy! ...  Read the complete review