HP CD-Writer Plus 9300i Series

Pros: works great, don't format the hard drive!!
Cons: it breaks after a format, and hewlett packard can't even give tech support on the matter

Recently, I purchased a Hewlett Packard CD-Writer Plus, and it worked just fine. It writes great, and hardly ever has an error. But then I decided it was time to format the hard drive (as you are recommended to at least once a year) and reinstall...

Pros: easy everything
Cons: nothing to gripe about

Nothing but good, comes from Hewlett-Packard again. This internal CD-RW is greased lightning. I sell this item at work and we have had nothing but success with it. The 10x Write, 4x Re-Write, 32x ROM speed is second to none. The typical IDE interface...

Pros: Blazing 10x WRITE speed, Direct CD software, EZ install
Cons: Dark gray...doesn't match the rest of my machine :(

Wow! What a great product! Until yesterday, I was using an older Philips 2x2x24 at work. I wanted a CDRW for home, so, looked around for the fastest I could find. READ speeds didn't mean all that much to me, as did RE-WRITE speeds. I wanted a fast...

Pros: Easy to install
Cons: Is it worth the high speed

I needed a fast burner so I purchased the hp 9300i, I am not really pleased with the cd writer because i cannot burn audio cd faster than 4x with the adaptec software, and with the data cds if am lucky i can burn them successfully at at 10x. I have...