| Product: |
Traxdata CDRW-8432 Plus |
| Date: |
06/02/01 (290 review reads) |
| Rating: |
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Advantages: none, really
Disadvantages: Data loss is the start of it...
In November 2000, I bought an internal Traxdata CD-RW drive - and it has been nothing but trouble, in fact, one major pain in the arse!.
Firstly, it had some of the accessories missing but the store I got it from (Game Liverpool) sorted that out straight away. So, what else was wrong with it? I got a box of 100 Traxdata Gold CDR's and the first ten or so, it would not record to (again, game Liverpool came to my rescue - it's a pity they don's sell everything for pc's as they are top notch there). I did, however, manage to record to Kodak disks and Traxdata Silver CDR's, which is very strange.
One main reason I got this drive was that I have a faultless Traxdata audio CD recorder, which has given me great service and, being a Phillips product, I've never had - or heard - of problems associated with their products. As I have an unstable Time PC, baking up data is essential (no matter who you are, make back ups of your data all the time). I maked up "My Documents" from my PC onto two Traxdata CD-RW's. Imagine the annoyance (and four-letter words!) when I lost an entire website and a bunch of graphics I made. The drive (via the supplied Nero software) shown that one of the CD-RW's had a capacity of 4Gb - larger than some people's hard drive! Click on the folder icon on the CD-RW and the whole system shuts down, reboots, runs scandisk and makes my blood boil.
This was common place despite re-installing the Nero software and even the replacements.
Other problems include: Unable to copy music CD's to Traxdata Gold CDR's (will to Kodak and all other brands I tried), which considering the CD's were my own demos and was another major factor in buying a CD drive (why should I pay a record industry surcharge on an audio CD when I am the original artist?)
Whether it is the actual drive (made in Hungary), the software (Nero), poor quality disks or the reasons, the Traxd
ata drive is one awful, troublesome pain in the arse which should be avoided at all costs. Whilst I do not know very much about alternative drives, I am aware that these drives are shipped under a variety of names. I've not heard anything bad about Yamaha stuff (except for a dodgy quality machine head on my yamaha pacifica 12 string guitar and the DX7 is a pain to program). Then again, this site is what it's all about, the good the bad and the ugly. Just don't buy whatever machine from Dixons, Currys or PC World...
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- 13/03/01 I also HAD a Traxdata CD-RW drive - it was always a little dodgy but one day it just stopped working - when I got someone from traxdata to look at it he just basically said that it was past it and couldn't be fixed...after only a year and a half and not all that much use! Traxdata are crap if you ask my opinion. |
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- 06/02/01 Quality op, although I personally use Traxdata CDr's with great pleasure. They are quite cheap, and have never failed on me. I own a Philips reweriter, with a max speed of 2x, which might also be source of the good results.
As always, the higher the speed, the more chances of faillure. My old PC used to give me far more problems (old PC, same burner). I couldn't rip and write simultaneously. With my new Duron 600 Mhz, this is a problem of the past.
So, don't always blame the writer or the CD's. Try a lower speed, and don't do too many other tasks in parallel.
As for that promised 4GB space on the CD, that is probably due to an expected compression ratio. If you try to store many mp3's or ZIPs on it, this won't work. With Word documents, on the other hand, you might even get far beyond the 4GB marker, because they compress much better. |
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