Tekram Technology Ultra 160/LVD SCSI Controller with Cable Terminator 160MB/Sec

Tekram Technology Ultra 160/LVD SCSI Controller with Cable Terminator 160MB/Sec
Manufacturer: TEKRAM TECHNOLOGY
Product Type: CE

Editorial Review:
Product Description
The DC-390U3 series of low voltage differential SCSI controllers for the PCI bus supports the new Ultra160 SCSI standard for improved speed and reliability. It features doubled max transfer speed - up to 200 MB/Sec., enhanced data integrity at higher bus speeds, optimum SCSI bus configuration verification for the fastest possible, yet safe, transfer speed. These controllers have Flash BIOS memory for easy upgradeability and high-speed 64-bit PCI bus master compatible with 32-Bit PCI slot.

Average customer rating: 2.5

It's slow, but it works
Unreliable Product/Inaccesible Customer Service

QPS 2x1x4;8x4x24 External FireWire DVD-RW/CD-RW Drive

Manufacturer: QPS
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B00005QVLZ

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Product Description

The Que! external FireWire SuperDrive will revolutionize the way you store data! Write DVD-R, DVD-RW, CD-R, CD-RW disks in this versatile new drive and your newly created disks will be the most compatible, most useful, and most amazing things you've ever created! Super-usability is the key! No other drive offers so many choices. Write DVD-R General disks at 2x speed and cut your wait time in half! With the ability to write 4.7GB of data in a mere 30 minutes, DVD-R General disks are an extremely affordable way to create the versatile storage you need. Write DVD-RW and use the same disk up to 1000 times for heavy duty back-up, super data storage and exchange, video authoring, image archiving, and much more. DVD (Digital Versatile Disk) opens the door to the large storage capacities required for video authoring, image and data archiving, etc., and works in any of today's computers or set-top players that are DVD-R and/or DVD-RW compliant. And the Que! SuperDrive features two FireWire ports so you can easily daisy chain other FireWire devices like digital cameras, hard drives, and more. If you've been waiting for the future, your time has come! The Que! SuperDrive gives you the capabilities you've been dreaming of and the versatility you need.

Amazon.com Product Description

The Que! external FireWire SuperDrive allows you to write DVD-R, DVD-RW, CD-R, CD-RW discs all from a single drive. Write DVD-R General discs at 2x speed and cut your wait time in half. With the ability to write 4.7 GB of data in 30 minutes, DVD-R General discs are an affordable way to create the versatile storage you need. Write DVD-RW and use the same disc up to 1,000 times for heavy-duty backup, data storage and exchange, video authoring, image archiving, and more. DVD (Digital Versatile Disc) opens the door to the large storage capacities required for video authoring, image and data archiving, etc., and it works in any of today's computer or set-top players that are DVD-R and/or DVD-RW compliant. And the Que! SuperDrive features two FireWire ports, so you can easily daisy-chain other FireWire devices like digital cameras, hard drives, and more.

The Que! DVD SuperDrive can also read and write to industry standard CD-R media at 8x and CD-RW media at 4x. Write your smaller data jobs and audio discs using this function and access or play them back in any CD-ROM or DVD-ROM with CD-R or CD-RW compatibility, including many car and home players.

The Que! SuperDrive is shipped with the MedioStream neoDVD Standard encoding/decoding and additional authoring software for PC. The complete software suite allows the capture, transcoding, pre-authoring, authoring, pre-mastering, and mastering capabilities you need to produce top-quality data and video DVDs*. Also includes Roxio Toast software for Macintosh for data authoring.

*DVD movie authoring on Macintosh requires third-party software (not included).

Customer Reviews:

It's slow, but it works.......2002-06-21

QPS-DVD Burner: Does the Job

I found this product especially difficult to buy. That is, I had to read through a lot of material both before and after my purchase to fully understand what it was I needed, who made it, and where to find it. The easiest part was finding the lowest price.

The difficulty lay in the fact that DVD standards have not yet settled down, and there are several to choose from. These include DVD-RW, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD+R, DVD-RAM, and possibly others. There are also single layer and double layer media as well as single sided and double sided media.

Here's what I needed:
· a low cost machine
· that can backup computer files
· and burn DVD's playable on home players
· with appropriate software

What I found was that QPS basically puts a plastic shell around a Pioneer burner thereby making it "external." They bundle it with software and sell it under their own label.

What I got was a machine that can store 4.7 Gb of data or video on a single sided, single layered media using the DVD-RW or DVD-R standard. QPS' bundled software, InCD, conflicts with DirectCD, so you must uninstall DirectCD first. However, I can read my DVD-RW disks in my other DVD-R/CD-RW drive as well as in my DVD drive on a different machine that still uses DirectCD. So I'm quite satisfied.

Software:
InCD works well enough, though you can only eject the media through the software and not through the drive's eject button. I can also create DVD-R disks playable on any of the DVD players I've tried.

On the other hand, I found the software which creates movie DVD's wholly inadequate. When one creates a movie DVD, one wants an application which helps create box covers, disk labels, navigation screens, movie chapters, etc. For an additional hundred bucks, I purchased DVD Complete Deluxe which does all that through a very easy to use interface. If you dream of making your own movie DVDs, you'll want to spend the extra hundred bucks.

Performance:
In addition, QPS' DVD-RW formatting and data copying processes are "slow" (slow being relative). It take about an hour to format a DVD-RW disk, and longer to convert and burn a DVD movie. If you don't need speed, and you're prepared to buy your own DVD burning software (or are willing to settle for less), then this machine does a great job!

Other:
I was happily surprised to find that one can chain multiple firewire devices through this machine. However, I was disappointed that the included six pin to six pin firewire cable was not compatible with my four pin Sony VAIO port. I had to buy a four pin/six pin cable for another twenty or thirty bucks. The additional two pins simply provide power to devices that don't have their own power source. This drive, as one might expect, requires its own power source. No big deal, though. The product documentation "prepared" me for this, and I had the appropriate cable in hand by the time UPS delivered my machine.

Now I just have to hope I bet on the right side of the "standards" battle.

Unreliable Product/Inaccesible Customer Service.......2002-05-04

First of all the product was on back order. Then when I did get the product, the software listed in the box and the manuals (Roxio Easy CD creator, Toast) did not match the ones provided in the installation CD (Ahead NERO). This was very confusing. So I tried to call QPS and had a hard time getting through. However, someone did return my call and sent me a CD with the Easy CD Creator & Toast. This was the only positive thing that happened.
Then I realized that the NERO software does the same thing as the Roxio software. So I loaded NERO v QPS 5.5.7.8 from the installation CD, however it did not work. QPS customer service was difficult to get hold off and when I did connect wasn't of any help. I then downloaded v 5.5.8 from NERO and it did work. Then I had problems with the drive not ejecting the CDs and sometimes turning DVD-RW into a DVD-ROM despite using the right software (InCD) to transfer data. On the whole, I am fed up and I am getting ready to return the product. It wasn't worth the trouble.

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