Sony DRX710UL DVD+R Double Layer External DVD+-RW Drive (16x) Review

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(More customer reviews)I purchased this product about a week ago, since I was looking for an external DVD burner to hook up to my laptop (IBM T-30 w/pcmcia firewire card) in order to consolidate a lot of cd's that I had lying around.Out of the Box:
The first thing I noticed was the size of the burner, which is actually pretty big compared to everything else on my desk, but with the verticle stand, it's not a problem. The drive itself looks like a high quality product, Sony even went the extra step of giving it a gloss finish.
Included in the box is a USB cable, and a Firewire cable with a 4 pin connector on one side, and a 6 pin on the other (the back of the drive has both a 6 pin firewire connector, and a 4 pin, so if you only have one type on your computer, you can just flip the cable around). Btw, Sony calls the firewire cable an "i.LINK" cable for some reason. Also included is a packet with the warranty, and seperate packet for the manuals and software CD.On the software CD:
Nero Burning Rom 6-SE
InCD 4
Nero Vision Express 2
Nero BackItUp
Nero ShowtimeInstallation:
The drive is purely plug and play, there are no drivers on the CD at all. Connect it by either the firewire or USB cable and it recognizes it very quickly. After the drive showed up in my computer, I popped in the software CD and installed the Nero software suite. I'm very happy that they included Nero, considering it's one of the best CD/DVD burning programs out there.Performance:
I went out and bought a generic brand of 4x DVD-R's to test the drive out, put in Kill Bill Vol 2, and started burning. Even at 4x, the entire process took 15 minutes. I was anxious to try out the Dual Layer feature, so I went out and bought a pack of DVD+R DL's. These things are not cheap, each one retailing around $10 a disc. After deciding on what to back up, I went to burn it. It took a bit of time, since it's burning at 2.4x, but it went flawlessly. I was a bit nervous, since I would've been annoyed (to say the least) at coastering a $10 disc.In conclusion, I am extremely satisfied with this product. I can't find a reason not to give it less than 5 stars. It's easy to setup, it's easy to use, and it performs like a dream.

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Sony DRX-710UL External Dual-Layer DVD+RW Drive - This external DVD recorder lets you burn data & video to Dual-Layer DVD+R & +RW media. This gives you up to 8.5GB of storage on just one side! Leaving room for printed labels, or marking with a Sharpie on the other. It also records to nearly every other DVD & CD media type available!Up to 48x CD-R Up to 24x CD-RW Up to 48x CD-ROM Up to 16x DVD-ROM Buffer Underrun Protection Includes -USB cable, FireWire cable (6-pin to 6-pin & 6-pin to 4-pin), Software CD, User's Guide, Warranty Card, Nero Burning ROM 6 SE, Nero Express 6, Nero VisionExpress 2 (VCD/SVCD & DVD Authoring), InCD 4, Nero ShowTime, Nero BackItUp, Nero MediaPlayer / Wave Editor, Nero Cover Designer, and Nero Toolkit

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