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PACIFIC DIGITAL INTERNAL CD-RW at staples ($50)

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here's another way to get the total to under $50

Add the burner to the cart SKU - 471101 99.99
Add the micro innovations roll-n-scroll mouse SKU - IM1115028 (taken from fw) 7.49
- 20 off 100 coupon
- 30 MIR for burner
- 10 MIR for the mouse (click on rebate center on the left, click on "Get your rebate", do a browse by category for "peripherals" and you'll see the $10 rebate on the bottom of the list)
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total - 47.48

hope this helps 😛
 
OK Like People Said Get The one that says SMARTBURN.

If You don't see a SMARTBURN Drive don't get it.
Because Pacific Digital Using Some Gay Azz Companies That we never Heard Off.

MY bro bought one thinking it would be a liteon from staples.com it ended up going back to Pacific Digital Because of some strange noise it was making.




 
Anybody know how this compares to the Cendyne from officemax for 50$ after MIR + coupon + IR? i just ordered it and the free 1 day shipping is nice but if the pacific digital drive is better i'd do that. anyone know if the cendyne has buffer underrun protection?

gew
 
Would someone post what software comes with this drive? I have purchased it but still haven't broken the seal. Mine says "Buffer UnderRun". The thing that caught my eye was the "up to 40X Audio Ripping - Rin a 74 minute audio CD in less than 3 minutes - Fastest in the Industry!" . Guess it's time to toss my Plextor UltraPlex 40max in to the can because it can't rip at up to 40X 😉

Also it has the following 9 digit serial number that starts with "A". Is this drive worth keeping?
 
Mighty white of Staples ....
I bought this drive at the start of January and have yet to receive the rebate . Heck they have not even found my paperwork at the rebate center and think it "Might have been lost or misdirected or sent to the wrong place" .

Im giving you all a big fat warning on the rebate coming since obviously Staples (rebatesHQ) is going to pull some funny business on rebates

You can read the reply they gave me in the rebate tracking thread .

Not to mention the Know I had to send my original UPC and now I don't have it to resubmit

Be warned .........
 
Just FYI , I filed for the rebate Online at Staples.com
and mailed it to the address they told me online . I can't recall where it said to send it now since I mailed it 6 weeks ago .
 
It is not necessarily true that if it says "BURN-proof" on the outside of the drive that it's Mitsumi. I bought a 12x10x32x Pacific Digital (Lite-On) for $50 about 6 months ago and it says "BURN-proof" on the drive.
 


<< Just FYI , I filed for the rebate Online at Staples.com
and mailed it to the address they told me online . I can't recall where it said to send it now since I mailed it 6 weeks ago . >>



That's why you have to make photocopies of absolutely EVERYTHING you send it. What I do is take the rebate form, my store receipt, and UPC, toss 'em on the scanner and save them on my comp. As long as my hard drive doesn't die, I'm set. I usually try to fit them all in one scan so you have them all in the same place. I know this post doesn't exactly help many ppl, since it's pretty much common sense, but for all you more trusting people (that think you are automatically going to get your rebate without having to make any calls, etc.) you might want to consider it.

By the way, what is with all the 24x CD-rw deals all of a sudden the last few weeks. First Pacifica Digital, then Cendyne, and I/O Magic. I hate to say this, but it gives me the feeling that all 24x drives must be crap. Doesn't really matter to me, I just kept the $35 16x10x40 drive (I think it is an Aopen), and sold the 2 24x drives I bought on Egay. Then again, it might matter to me soon if my customers start complainin'
 


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<< Just FYI , I filed for the rebate Online at Staples.com
and mailed it to the address they told me online . I can't recall where it said to send it now since I mailed it 6 weeks ago . >>



That's why you have to make photocopies of absolutely EVERYTHING you send it. What I do is take the rebate form, my store receipt, and UPC, toss 'em on the scanner and save them on my comp. As long as my hard drive doesn't die, I'm set. I usually try to fit them all in one scan so you have them all in the same place. I know this post doesn't exactly help many ppl, since it's pretty much common sense, but for all you more trusting people (that think you are automatically going to get your rebate without having to make any calls, etc.) you might want to consider it.

By the way, what is with all the 24x CD-rw deals all of a sudden the last few weeks. First Pacifica Digital, then Cendyne, and I/O Magic. I hate to say this, but it gives me the feeling that all 24x drives must be crap. Doesn't really matter to me, I just kept the $35 16x10x40 drive (I think it is an Aopen), and sold the 2 24x drives I bought on Egay. Then again, it might matter to me soon if my customers start complainin' >>




I did just what you are saying , and I also did exactly what else you said . My Hard Drive took a nose dive 3 days ago and everything was on thier for my Staples Rebate . 🙁

I only hope if they don't "Find" my rebate I can get the Staples store manager to do something about it , rather than returning my Burner .
 
I picked up one of these dirves today. I checked two stores but it looks like they only have the BTC model available in my neck of the woods. I Works fine for regular burning but it WILL NOT OVERBURN even the slightest bit using Nero 5.5.7.2. When I checked Nero's website, they claimed that the drive supports overburning, but the recorder properties under Nero has the overburn support box unchecked. I have no idea if there is a way to override this, but for now I think I may have to return this drive since many of my Divx movies require just a few megs of overburning. However, if you don't need this function, the drive seems to be fine, despite the unknown manufacturer.

p.s. Yes, overburning was enabled in the advance properties of Nero and worked fine with my 8x philips drive.
 


<< I picked up one of these dirves today. I checked two stores but it looks like they only have the BTC model available in my neck of the woods. I Works fine for regular burning but it WILL NOT OVERBURN even the slightest bit using Nero 5.5.7.2. >>



I've read somewhere that you can enable overburn by upgrading the firmware (although I'm not sure how to do it on a rebadge Lite-On...)
 
The store managner at my staples my staples said if you ever have a problem with a rebate just go talk to them and they will give you the money your deserve. Just bring all the information that you have and they should take care of it.

I ran some tests on the BTC drive. Like stated earlier no overburn feature.

Also i could not find any new firmware for this drive on the manufacture's site.

This drive is a P-CAV (spins at partial constant angular velocity) and it does a pretty good job of DAE.

This drive is very adverage when it comes to burn times, or maybe below adverage. This burner only has a 1mb buffer as reported by nero, and buffer under run protection of course.

The frist few letters of the serial number on mine are A's( in response to an earlier statement.)

Since i got the acer week i can compare the 2.

The acer can burn sd2(tested myself) and does a good job of ripping audio with its CAV. The BTC does a slightly better job of ripping audio, but both do very well. They acer seems a little faster when burning a cd. i think the acer did a 700mb cd in 6 minutes at 20x.
The BTC was about 15 seconds slower.

IF anyone has any questions about perfermance of the drives just post or PM me and i will reply as soon as i can.🙂
 


<< This drive is very adverage when it comes to burn times, or maybe below adverage. This burner only has a 1mb buffer as reported by nero, and buffer under run protection of course. >>



ah I wasn't aware the word average had a d in it😛
 
I have the mitsumi in my comp btw, I'm going to hold onto it for now maybe try and sell it for $70 and get a liteon 24x or 32x.. its not a bad drive at all though, the thing I don't like about it is the fact that its not that great with some media, it seems to go at 16x with some 24x media I have... the safedisc feature or lack thereof is another reason but the media probs are what I don't like primarily
 
Just got it, thanks!
If you are in Phoenix, they have the Lite-On version at Staples at 7th Ave. and Bell Road, in Wal-Mart shopping center.
There was no attempt at rebadging this drive, opened the box and the drive says Lite-On on the top sticker, manufactured Nov 01.
Front bezel is blank accept for 24x10x40x in the lower right corner.
Says Smart-Burn on front of box, serial on the box is 12 digits, no letters. Comes with rebadged NTI burning software and 1 CD-R sample... no CD-RW sample though.
Might check out the Cendyne deal at OM next...
 
Hey Lizardman

Have you had any problems w/ the BTC drive?

I got one yesterday and so far I've had 4 coasters!

I see Nero's buffer data line decreasing and decreasing, and I can't stop it. BU was on, and I burned at 24x an audio cd.

I see that my entire system seems to come to a sloooow when this drive is burning, even something as simple as browsing anandtech, while scrolling through the pages, it almost freezes for a sec as I scroll, then takes jumps to keep up.

Is this normal, for a 24x burner to take sooo much of my computer power? My old trusty Mitsumi 4x would run and run no matter what I did! And that didn't even have buffer underrun.

Here's more info, I have the drive on the second IDE channel, by itself as master.

Ironically, the old Mitsumi 4x drive was on the secondary IDE channel, also alone, but was a slave, and that worked beautifully. I don't believe I ever got a coaster w/ Mitsumi. They're quite good.

Can you help me please? I don't know what's wrong...

PS. DMA isn't even an option under WindowsXP device properties of the drive, but I have gone into the sec IDE controller, and choose enable DMA if available, still the same problem. (on the BIOS it was set to DMA 2, and I even tried 3/4, w/ no help)

At the moment I switched that to PIO (not sure what this is really), and matched it in the BIOS.

Thank you in advance man 🙂 🙂
 
In reply to hanybanoub

OK there a couple questions you have so i will answer them all as best as I can.

I ran some tests with cd speed. It reported that the the cpu usage is above 45% , normal for any other drive is like 10%. So that answers one question.

In response to the coaster question. This burner only has a 1mb Buffer! (as reported by nero) Ever other burner has a 2mb buffer at least: go figure. I have had several coasters myself and cant really explain why. Nero reports cant fixation error. whatever that is.

It shouldnt matter what IDE device it is plugged into. This is a slow ass burner. like 7minutes for 16x at 700mb. WTF is up with that.

IF you can take the drive back to staples and get another - liteon/ or anyother brand. This is by far the worst burner I have come across in my time.
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If anyone knows anything else about the BTC burner please share. Is there some secrect to get this thing working properly.🙁:|:Q
 
Thanks Lizardman for your reply and thoughts 🙂

You're right this is a pretty bad burner 🙁

I"ll probably return it as well...

Sometimes I also hear noise coming from it, even though it's not even spinning.

The old saying, you get what you pay for...😉

 
If I have a CD in mine (BTC), every minute or so my system locks up for a few seconds. Not cool.

It's going back.

 
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