De mannen van HardwareZone.com komen met een review van de Iomega CDRW6402EXT-B. Deze externe USB CD-RW drive schrijft op 16 speed, herschrijft op 10 speed en leest CD's op 40 speed. De verbinding met je pc verloopt via USB 2.0. De brander beschikt over een buffer underrun protectie, maar het is helaas niet duidelijk om welke het gaat. Verdere specificaties zijn een buffer van 2MB en een random access time van 140 ms. De prestaties zijn vrij redelijk. Hieronder een gedeelte uit de conclusie:
In all honesty, the Panther drive is a wonderful piece of device. It may not be the fastest 16x recorder our there, but it is one of the best external drive performer we have seen to date. By incorporating a Burn-proof protection into the Panther, Iomega have also insured users against buffer-underruns. Add to the fact that it's capable of reading sub-channel data, and the eye-popping discovery that it can do 99 minutes overburning, the Panther is a pretty versatile drive, especially for an external one.
[...]Overall, what we didn't like however, is the bulkiness of the Panther drive. It is heavy in weight, and its huge size may not be the ultimate portable drive. Then again, Iomega did carefully named this drive as an external drive, not a portable one. So if you just lack that 5 1/4 bay in your casing, the Panther may be an option to consider. But we figured a lot of users will be attracted by the pricing of the drive, which is at an ERP S$379. Plunk in a free USB 2.0 PCI card that comes together with the package, which is valued at around S$80-plus courtesy of Iomega, and we do find it hard not to like the Iomega Panther.
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