4x DVD +-RW at Office Max for $79.99 AR

[DeweySS]

Picked up a Micro Advantage 4X Dual Format DVD+R/RW and -R/RW Drive for $130 out the door at Office Max and then a $50 MIR for a total of $79.99 after rebates.

The label on the drive say's MFG by Top-G.
It is a Micro Advantace 4DVDRW-B13 model # IDE1004

It is a good price, but is the quality of this drive any good?

 

[HFC]

I am wondering the same. According dvdplusrw.org this is a BTC drive.

 

[HFC]

Also discussed here:

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=40&threadid=1194610&FTVAR_MSGDBTABLE=

 

[AAjax]

Link for the lazy

 

[quincy2002]

I bought one a month or so ago. It worked fine. No problems using fuji DVD-R 4x blanks. It couldn't burn the cheapo khypermedia DVD-Rs though. You should stick with high quality media anyways. I ended up returning it though because I wanted to wait for prices to come down. I would rather own a Lite-on (which I bought last Friday) or the Optorite DD203 or the NEC 1300A, but for $80 its not a bad deal.