SM-332 SAMSUNG SM-332 SAMSUNG SM-332
Solid drive
I've had great success with this drive after purchasing it three weeks ago.  I have a small Dell tower with only one 5.25&quot; bay, so I decided to go the combo route.  It installed with no problems.  I've burned music cd's from MusicMatch Jukebox and Nero (the latest version of which recognizes the drive instantly), running Windows 98 SE.  CD-r's burn in less than 4 minutes.  I've also used CD-rw's at 4x, made multisession disks, video cd's, erased cd-rw's--no problems at all.  The drive has JustLink coaster protection and an 8 mb buffer, which seem to work very well as I've not had an error yet.  When burning at high speed, the drive makes an irritating high-pitched noise, but it is reasonably quiet otherwise.  If you are looking for a near-silent drive, look elsewhere.<br />DVD's sometimes stutter w/the included PowerDVD, but that is probably because the bundled PowerDVD demands a lot of CPU power and I've got a PIII 550.  My ATI DVD player demands less processing power and they play fine.