Cendyne 6x4x32 Internal CD-RW at CompUSA, Who really makes it??

[tbasset]

Has anyone purchased this drive that is on sale at CompUSA this week and if so who makes the drive?

Is it worth the $99 after rebate?

 

[ChrisOh]

I saw a while back that Plextor might make the drive, not sure though

 

[panasyuk]

It is Ricoh RW7063A drive.

 

[Siamskunk]

I returned it the next day and grabed sony 12x back home instead..........much much better

 

[aknuj]

WHY ITS NOT THAT GOOD?

 

[Gunbuster]

The ricoh is a good little drive it just wont do CloneCD

 

[eia430]

I don't know about the 6x4x32 but the cendyne 8x4x32 turned out to be the Plextor 8432.

 

[tbasset]

Yes, my Cendyne 8x4x32 is a Plexor, just has 2 meg cache instead of 4 meg cache.

Runs great and I have NEVER had a problem with it.

 

[Samyo]

Is Cendyne 8x4x32 really a Plextor 8432? How can I know it?
Fry's has it for $127 after rebate. Is it a hotdeal?

 

[tiejiba]

what do you mean: The ricoh is a good little drive it just wont do CloneCD?
what is cloneCD

 

[Unsickle]

HELLO!!!! This drive is $65 after rebate from Amazon using a coupon found at bensbargains

 

[WoodenTiki]

How do you know it is a plextor ....

What should i look for?

 

[busmaster11]

Cendyne uses Ricoh drives AFAIK... And my ricoh 6x4x24 CAN use cloneCD... abet at 1x because its trial... even though it wasn't listed as supported

 

[tiejiba]

I got mine this morning, It is a Ricoh,RW7063A, Made in Korea in JUly 2K,I do not try it yet.
Cause there is no place in my computer now, My SL-6 only support 4 IDE,
I have 1 4X CD-rom, 1 DVD-rom and 2 HD, It is hard ,right?

 

[IMSNoopy]

Is it UDMA drive? I am looking for such CDRW drive because the drive that I have now slows down my computer pretty much when I am recording CD. If anyone has info, please let me know. Thanks.

Snoopy

 

[ebaker]

I bought a cendyne 8x4x32 last week at CompUSA and it was an Acer with 2 meg buffer. The picture on the box is a Ricoh.

 

[tiejiba]

mine is a Ricoh, It is very clearly marked on the item itself.

 

[Clocker]

I would like to make a few points clear.

The Cendyne 6x4x32 is a Ricoh 7063A it is Clone Cd (reads well) compatable and posseses a higher DAE rate than a HP or Plextor 8x4x32. I know I have a Plextor and a Cendyne.

Unfortunately the Cendyne 8x4x32 is a Acer and it is a bad drive. Its DAE is poor compared to the the Ricoh and it is not compatable with DAO writing.

Also, it is complete bullcrap for Cendyne to market their drives with a picture of a Ricoh drive on their boxes but package an ACER that is completely different in appearance when you open the box.

I was screwed up by buying the 8x4x32 Cendyen thinking it was a Ricoh since the picture is a Ricoh and the 6x4x32 is a Ricoh 7063a.

Overall the 6x Cendyne burner is a good deal if you can find it for the right price. This drie reads faster than my Plextor 8432 in Clone CD and DAE.


I wanted the creme de la creme plextor but the cost seems a bit high.

Hopefully this has cleared up some confusion.

Sincerely

 

[domeng]

That's right it is a Ricoh RW7063A. The Ricoh brand drive has a modle number MP7063A. I recently got my drive from Amazon at $65 after rebate and coupon. After 2 days, I shipped the CD Writer back. It made 7 coasters from 10 of my CD-RWs! What I did was to simply erased the current data on my CD-RW's (Memorex 4X 650MB CDRW, and GQ 4X CDRW) using Nero 5.0.3.1. The error message was something like "Unable to recover table of contents...". I thought that is what I am trying to create by formatting (fully erasing). Oh boy, I probably tried around 5 more CD Writer softwares to try to fully erase my CDRW. No go. I tried CloneCD, CDRWIN38c, NTICDMaker**, Super Blank, etc. The most logical explanation from the web I could find why this thing happened is because of mismatched CD Writer and media. Anybody knows what that really means? But anyway, I would rather spend more money and get the Plextor.

A friend of mine from out of town told me that he had a similar problem lately with another CD Writer. He was able to recover the CDRW media (reformat) using an HP8200 and EZCD. Hmmm, sounds like my problem stemmed from the CD Writer and not the software. BTW, I even upgraded the bios of the RW7063A from 1.5 to 1.7. It did create 2 more coasters.

Hope some other people gets lucky.

 

[McCarthy]

domeng, sorry to hear that. Sounds like you may have got the lemon this time. Mine's working fine through Adaptec EZCD 4.02 even though some bright boy posted a review on the amazon page saying the drive doesn't work with Adaptec software.

We all get the lemon now and then. Personally I wouldn't have been in the burner market if the 8x8x24 Yamaha SCSI drive I bought last month hadn't died completely within a week after making a few coasters.

--Mc

 

[Murpheeee]

Hey Guys,

What software comes shipped with the Cendyne 6x4x32 ?

 

[Ribbit]

Nero 5.0 2.0 ships with it but can be upgraded free to latest version at nero's homesite.