ZipCD 12x10x32 w/ Burnproof for $99.99

[DaviDaVinci]

It's 3:11 am and i spent the past half hour amusing myself reading this whole thread. By the way, isn't Best Buy going to have more in tomorrow morning? New shipment comes in tomorrow. I'm going to best buy tomorrow morning to grab those IMATION 12x 20 pack for 5 bucks (they come with slimcases). If i see any more burners then i'll grab as many as they let me. If any poor soul out their 'needs' one to do whatever they want with it, then let me know. I'll post tomorrow after i come back with results (whether or not i got any). Peace.
Davinder Singh

 

[goophie]

yeah sorry guys, i just had to get in on the 600+ post thread...

 

[immortalis]

This should have been here, in the original thread, sorry for the double post:

Look what I found in my mail:

Q: How large is the cache of the drive? I could not find any information on this.

Dear xxxx
Thank you for using Iomega's Online Support services. The drive has a 4MB cache.

Sincerely,
Jeremiah
Iomega Customer Support


Now it's time to open the box!

 

[bjassin]

This is NOT true. The drive specs say it has only 1.8 MB. Most Burnproof drives have about 2 MB cache, including the plextor one.

BJ

 

[IITravel]

My Plextor 12/10/32A says 2MB in the manual. Elsewhere it states that Plextor drives with BurnProof have 2 or 4MB, but this one appears that to have 2MB.

 

[The Sauce]

DaVinci,
I doubt it will do you any good. It was a 2 day sale so there is nothing to pricematch anymore. And BestBuy only dropped their prices in the first place to avoid pricematching. It would be great if someone screwed up but I went to BB on Tuesday and their price was listed as $279 on the shelf (which was empty).

 

[Nkcowboy]

O..great...their site is down now (compusa) and their tech support just gets rid of me. I ordered on online early sunday morning, with 2 day delivery, and I am Still waiting!!!

<< O..great...their site is down now (compusa) and their tech support just gets rid of me. I ordered on online early sunday morning, with 2 day delivery, and I am Still waiting!!! >>

 

[mrVW]

Why is this the only place that people are so facinated with the damn buffer 1800K is the same as 2048K if you consider there must be some workspace for the firmware to do job.

The only Plextor 12x burner that comes with 4MB is the SCSI version...

In case you have not heard... the Iomega drive can now be RENAMED to match the Plextor 100.00000%

 

[Davegod75]

yeah i've heard..just did it and it works great

 

[darker]

must not die....

 

[SF DUDE]

I am a Manager for BB. The CompUSA deal was two days only. You WILL NOT get a price match at BB, since the sale is over.

 

[beatinitup]

does it really matter if the buffer is 2mb or 4mb since it has burn proof? i mean either way your not gonna get a buffer under run anymore

 

[Eunos]

I received an email today from Compusa and it said that they expect me to get my drive in 3-4 weeks.

I ordered on Sunday morning at 10:11am est.

Dave

 

[Hulk]

Is this deal still going on?

Could someone explain the current status I really don't want to read through this entire post to figure out what's going on!

Thanks!

 

[ratkil]

Hulk, the deal is over, the drives are back up to $279. Actually a whole shelf of them at a compusa here in St Louis, very depressing to see them sitting there at that price.......sigh

 

[Noirish]

maybe compusa will come back w/ another crazy cdrw sale next few weeks.
so many big brand name stores are closing down b/c of lack of business.
i think if compusa has the same problem and want to generate more revenue/profit, they might do those kind of crazy sale often.

 

[Lumpy]

Got this in my e-mail today.:|

My order date and time are: 12/31/2000 @ 12:31:24 AM


Thank you for your recent order from CompUSA.com. Due to unanticipated demand
of the Zip Internal CD-RW Drive (#280095) you ordered, we are experiencing
overwhelming demand. Because of the product shortage this has created,
shipment of your order may be delayed, with an expected arrival time
of 3-4 weeks.

We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. If at any time you wish
to cancel your order, please visit us on-line or call us at 1-800-653-3831.
Any delay in the shipment of your order will not affect the $30 Mfr. Mail-In Rebate.
All rebates will be honored, even after the expiration date.

Thank you for your patience. We look forward to serving you again in the
near future!

The CompUSA.com Team

Text

 

[dcdomain]

In the same boat as Eunos and Lumpy... damn! At least we didn't get our orders canceled...

 

[polotek147]

I am using Nero ver. 5.0.1.8 and it does not detect the zipCD 12x10x32. What is wrong with it? I know the drive works b/c I used adaptec direct cd to erase a cd-rw. Help...

 

[mrVW]

Are you serious... that version of Nero is pretty stale, it is very easy to update nero. I recommend uninstall, install the latest demo download - then enter your serial to register.

Nero v5.0.3.8

 

[LeStEr]

holy sh|t this thread has alot of posts in it

 

[dchilder]

One more post to boot...
Still waiting patiently for my drive...

For those of you who have kindly hosted websites with material on upgrading this drive, are you going to be maitaining them for the next few weeks? That would be much appreciated, and thanks for your help!

DC

 

[ebaker]

I would download all the update programs now in case they do disappear. You can also copy any paste all the site instructions and FAQs to a txt file to save on your hard drive.

 

[dchilder]

Good idea. Just wondering if I should take the time to do all that now... thanks.

DC

 

[Jaybird]

Well, 4mb is still better because the burnproof does add a bit of slop to the burn. Better to never have to invoke burn proof, which is less morewith the 4mb buffer.

I wonder if a burner has to invoke burn proof on an audio CD, if the checksum or whatever it is will still be close enough that the CD can be identified using a CDDB query.