HP Surestore CD-Writer Plus 9310i

I had been anxious to buy a cdrw for some time so that I could archive important files from my hard drive and also to give extra storage space as my hard drive is only 6.4 GB, tiny in comparison to todays monster drives, and its only 2 years old! I finally picked this one up from Dixons who were selling it as an end of line product reduced to £89.99 with 10% off making total price £80.99. At this price I could not afford to miss out - sod the credit card I thought. Hewlett Packard are reliable and have good technical support so I knew I was getting a bargain. Instructions are superb and make installation easy - for most people. My problem was that my ...  Read the complete review

Now when you want to buy something for that PC of yours do you not look for quality and ease of use? i thought so! The range of HP CD-RW's are great and VERY easy to install (they come with a little video type thing which tells you exactly what to do). The software is not great but it does the job (if i was you i would go out and get Nero). Hehehe i have also found that with the drive comes a program called Direct CD which runs continuously in the background though if you turn this of (using msconfig) you can make it so that you can't open the drive! so that you can stop people pinching the CD (though you can just run direct cd from start > run and it ...  Read the complete review

When I bought this unit I expected good build quality and well manufactured components, I was also hoping that I would get a decent software bundle to augment my installed software and make audio recording a breeze. The build quality and components are there but the software is a farce, the music recording program (Acid) is the wrong type of software to use with the drive. Sonic Foundry the manufacturers of Acid suggeted contacting HP and having a reissued CD with the correct software on it, still waiting. Overall a great unit but the software is a joke. ...  Read the complete review

Trying to write at 10x produced constant buffer underruns. I cannot get this to write at 10x, the best I can get is 8x. H.P. has many recommendations as does Adaptec for this problem but none work. Also, The Adaptec 3.5 software included does not allow mp3 to audio disk creation, requires you to convert to a Wav file.Loading drawer is cumbersome, the disk doesn't "fall into place" easily, you have to make sure it is centered before closing the drawer or you hear a crunch and have to reposition it.This cdrw is fast and easy to use but not the quality i expected for the price. ...  Read the complete review