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| Date Reviewed: 01/09/2005 |
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Strengths: quality, reliability, great price.
Weaknesses: no software
Summary: NEC makes great stuff. This is a wonderful burner for a great price. I got the black one. It is reliable, priced competitively, and NEC is quality. If you're looking for a quality burner without forking over a lot of money, then go with NEC. I like this one a lot more than my Sony. I just wish it came with some software.
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| Date Reviewed: 01/03/2005 |
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Strengths: Easy to install, burns DVD and CD at fastest possible speed.
Weaknesses: None so far
Summary: ND-3500A is the bast of it's class at a very affordable price. I installed and start using within 15 minutes. Connected this DVD burner as a slave to another CD burner and windows 2000 had no problem recognizing the drive, make and model. I only used DVD-R so far with very satisfactory result. I ordered this drive OEM (Just the drive, no cable,manual, driver or burning software) from ZipZoomFly.com, good vendor.
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| Date Reviewed: 01/03/2005 |
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Strengths: High speed, reliable drive.
Weaknesses: Comes with Ulead instead of Nero software
Summary: The NEC ND-3500A is a top rated dual layer DVD drive. Tom's hardware reviews rates it one of the fastest drives when writing DVDs, and my experience supports that conclusion. Being a "name brand" drive, it's easy to obtain support and other applications support it without special drivers, etc. I'm quite please with the drive, and would recommend it.
I would have preferred to have the Nero software, which seems to be the de facto standard. However, the Ulead software works fine and does the job.
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| Date Reviewed: 01/06/2005 |
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Strengths: Fast and reliable, black faceplate.
Weaknesses: Kind of loud.
Summary: Great little dvd burner. Had it for almost a month now and no coaster yet. I'm using Fuji blank medias. The black faceplate matches my Antec case perfectly. So far so good, will definitely recommend this drive to others.
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| Date Reviewed: 08/02/2005 |
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Strengths: Easy instalation, cool looking, burn and read CD and DVD no problem.
Weaknesses: none that I am aware of.
Summary: I got this 8 months ago and I have never had a problem with this product. It reads and burns DVDs and CDs with no problems. I would definetly recommend this to anyone.
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| Date Reviewed: 02/01/2005 |
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Strengths: It writes and reads CDs and DVDs very quickly and reliably. I really like the performance of this drive.
Weaknesses: It is a little weaker than the average drive in reading CDs with significant scratches on them.
Summary: I would recommend that you now get the NEC nd-3520 instead of this drive as it is a slight step up in writiing speeds but still the same reliability of this great CD drive manufacturer.
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| Date Reviewed: 01/22/2005 |
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Strengths: Double layer burning, price.
Weaknesses: Loud when reading CDs.
Summary: I bought this to burn double layer DVDs (however I need to wait until DL media prices to come down). So far, I haven't had any problems buring CDs or DVDs. However, this drive is loud when reading CDs. I used to have a Pioneer A08 and it was much quiter. This drive reads even the music CDs at full speed, which makes it very loud. Other than that, with a price of about $40 after rebate, I can't complain.
There is a solution for loudness, using Nero disk speed or similar utility. However, you have to run the utility all the time. A firmware solution like Pioneer drivers would be much better.
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| Date Reviewed: 01/19/2005 |
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Strengths: DVD +/-R burn Speed, Dual layer.
Weaknesses: Dual layer burn speed of 2.4x
Summary: I have burnt a few DVDs at 16x with no coasters. I have also burnt three dual layer dvds. It was nice to be able to burn over 8 Gigs on one disc but the burn speed of 2.4x is less than the avarage speed of 4x offered by most Dual layer dvd burners.
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