A lean, mean coaster making machine! (Creative CD-RW Blaster 8432)

Member Name: Johndonut

Product:	Creative CD-RW Blaster 8432
Date:	07/09/00 (298 review reads)
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Advantages: Cheapish

Disadvantages: Unsuccessful burns : Successful burns = 20:1

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 to make another burn after a successful one, it didn't work. This suggests great unpredictability, and this is backed up by my experience with the product.

If I were you, I wouldn't take the risk with this and buy a different, more reliable rewriter. But hey, if you're after some attractive shiny coasters, buy buy buy!

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