Once again, the drive pleasantly surprised us. Due to its size, it would be natural to assume that the drive might be particular about the types of media that it took. This is probably the second most popular question everyone had with this drive. (For those of you acting as double-agents out there, this drive performed equally as well on the Windows side of things, with nary a problem). Every tester here would stand up and shout, "We'll take USB over SCSI any day of the week for a CD-R/W." Ain't that the truth. Not a bad deal at all, especially considering that, up until now, we had to deal primarily with SCSI for our CD-R/W needs. Adaptec's Toast, which shipped with the drive, was even smart enough to recognize the drive if you plugged it in WHILE Toast was running. The drive was easily hot-swappable, and never had a problem being recognized by the computer. During extensive testing on both a Pismo PowerBook 400MHz, or a 500MHz G4, there was never once a problem with the USB bus becoming a bottleneck and thwarting our attempts to burn a CD.
Our experience, however, was extremely pleasant. There have been some mixed reports here, and this was certainly a concern of ours when we started working with this drive. This is a question that's heard quite a bit when discussing CD-R/W drives. Most of us were even happier at the end, too! But lets get to the details and questions everyone has. We put the drive through the standard paces, added some steps to that list just for good measure, and everyone lived to tell the tale. This is a slimline drive, about three-quarters of an inch thick, certainly suited for users on-the-go, but would (and did) work just as well for someone who wants to save a little desk space with their desktop machine. We recently had the opportunity to do some long-term testing with VST's Portable CD-R/W drive, and overall we were very impressed. VST's Portable USB CD-RW: Smaller Is Better
Portable USB CD-RW Drive With FireWire Cable Announced The Mac Observer - Review - VST's Portable USB CD-RW: Smaller Is Better
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