User alert: Creative Labs CDR-W drives problems..

bonkers325

Lifer
Mar 9, 2000
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"...I work in a well known computer shop in France and i noticed some interesting things about Creative Labs products...3 months ago we got their 8/4/32 CDRW drive that was a cool thing to use. It had the same face as the ide Plextor 8x and 12x drives. It also had the 1.05 firmware version when the plex 8x has a 1.05 too so i said this is a Plextor based drive. We had none of these drive coming back to us.

Then we had another shipment (i cannot say any other word sorry...) of these drives but they had PANASONIC faces and had the same firmware revision as the Panasonic drives had (don't remember which one). 80% of theses drives were dead in the box. The ones we got today have Goldstar faces. What is going on? It Creative Labs trying to trick users?

I remember Memorex doing the same thing in December 1998, shipping YAMAHA drives with memorex printed on. Then we Said "Damned those drives are good" and they were! In February they were selling drives of any other taiwaneese brand..."


this is major bummer
dont buy creative now
u never now what u get :(
 

mindiris

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Oct 23, 1999
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Interesting bait. I guess it works nicely to get the unofficial buzz going about incredible deals, and silently switching the mfg to a cheaper one. I do have to say however, that it's in their best interest to not cause a huge RMA rate. A good reputation is very easy to destroy.