Are Mad Dog (Artec) CD burners any good?

[Salvador]

I just bought a $10 after rebate CDRW drive at Officemax this weekend and instead of the regular beige drive that they were offering for the sale, OM substituted a black Mad Dog cd burner instead. I looked up the model numbers on Google and it's an Artec drive model number WRR-52Z.

Does anyone have any experience with it? Is this drive any good?

TIA,

Sal

 

[Ronstang]

I'm not sure about the CD Burner but Artec makes damn good DVD drives that are always highly rated. If the company follows a like quality philosophy across product lines you might be lucky, but for $10 who fricken cares.

 

[Salvador]

I'm not sure about the CD Burner but Artec makes damn good DVD drives that are always highly rated. If the company follows a like quality philosophy across product lines you might be lucky, but for $10 who fricken cares.

I know.. Who cares at $10. Maybe I should've omitted what I paid and just asked about Artec drives in general. I just wanted to see if it was another BTC or Top-G drive. The bezel looks pretty cheap, but then again, I don't like to judge a book by its cover.

Thanks again.

Sal

 

[ST4RCUTTER]

After using a MADDOG 52x CDROM drive I think I'll stay away from their products for a while. That drive was loud, slow, and less reliable than some of the generic stuff I got in other places. There are so many vendors in this field that I would recommend anyone else...

 

[bjc112]

Originally posted by: ST4RCUTTER
After using a MADDOG 52x CDROM drive I think I'll stay away from their products for a while. That drive was loud, slow, and less reliable than some of the generic stuff I got in other places. There are so many vendors in this field that I would recommend anyone else...

I'm not a fan of Mad Dog by any means, and i fully argree with Starcutters statement..

Hell you can get a Lite-On 48x for like 20 buc.. Better drive, with nice audio extraction speeds.

 

[Samus]

I've had excellent luck with maddog products (52x CDRW, Geforce4 MX440 AGP card w/ samsung chips, not some generic stuff, and a decent cooler) and have been using both the mentioned products for around 6 months with everyday use. Then you have to consider the cd burners have a 2 year warranty and the videocards have a lifetime warranty THAT EVEN COVERS THE FAN. They're based out of CA, have a mailing address, not a po box, and have tech support/sales lines that aren't busy.

That's all I care about in a company, decent products they stand behind.

The only thing that pissed me off about the videocard was it didn't include a video cable, even though the box says it should. I called them up and they said they'd mail me one for 3.95 (shipping cost) at which point I told them I could buy one locally for less than that.

 

[Salvador]

Has anyone that purchased a Mad Dog 52x cd burner recently gotten anything other than a black drive? That's all I see out there now is the black drives and I want the white one. Even the order page where I ordered the drive showed a box with a white drive, but when I received the drive it was a box with a black drive on front and a black drive inside of course.

I never thought that it would be this tough to get a white drive.

Sal

 

[Sheriff]

I like the name and it may be better then the Wine but I installed 2 and 1 went down in 2 months time.

 

[KillaKilla]

Originally posted by: Salvador
Has anyone that purchased a Mad Dog 52x cd burner recently gotten anything other than a black drive? That's all I see out there now is the black drives and I want the white one.

I baught one from officemax recently and it was white. I assume you mean the 52x24x52 CD-RW?


BTW I've had no problems with any CD/DVD/DVDRW/CDRW drives. Heck, I have an old Lite-On 32x CDROM in my PII-266

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(I think my PII-266Mhz outperformes my celeron 2.6Ghz, crappy celerons (
:clock: :Q :frown: :disgust: :| :evil: :smashing crappy CPU; these were my facial expressions after I realized just how bad celerons are.)
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[Salvador]

I think my PII-266Mhz outperformes my celeron 2.6Ghz, crappy celerons (

Celerons blow! I remember comparing 3 systems. A Duron 750 system, Dell Celeron 900 and a Pentium Pro 200mhz. system. The Duron system was clearly faster and the Pentium Pro 200 mhz system didn't seem too far off from the Celeron 900.

I wonder why there are only black drives in my area? I am referring to the 52x24x52 cd burner.

Sal