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andi*pandi · Feb 8, 2002, 04:05 AM

I finally got around to setting up my Iomega Predator CD-RW, and it works sweet! Not too loud, no coasters... happy so far. I was worried USB would be too slow, but doesn't appear to be. In fact, I put the Tomb Raider CD in there and ran it, and it seemed faster than my iMac's internal as far as rendering and such. And once I get around to installing harmoni, I can get the Firewire adapter for predator and really zip...

yay...

Severed Hand of Skywalker · Feb 8, 2002, 09:23 AM

You are the first person I have see that hasn't called this thing anything other then a royal piece of crap.

PeteWK · Feb 9, 2002, 03:02 AM

Originally posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker:
You are the first person I have see that hasn't called this thing anything other then a royal piece of crap.

I had one with both the USB and FireWire adapters (boy, is THAT a story!) and was generally unhappy with it. I ended up selling it on eBay and getting a Yamaha 16X for 30 bucks less than I sold the Predator. Har!

PeteWK

Mac Zealot · Feb 9, 2002, 03:19 AM

Originally posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker:
You are the first person I have see that hasn't called this thing anything other then a royal piece of crap.

I can't help but agree, anything that carries that iomega symbol I steer far away from, first thing coming to mind: CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!

driven · Feb 9, 2002, 08:08 AM

Originally posted by Mac Zealot:


I can't help but agree, anything that carries that iomega symbol I steer far away from, first thing coming to mind: CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!

A lesson that I just recently learned with one of their ZipCD650 drives.
(And one that I *should* have learned after having one of their Jazz drives crap out on me.

philzilla · Feb 9, 2002, 08:15 AM

i'm on my second one. the first one just died, for no reason. it managed to take my 7-port belkin usb hub down with it too. or maybe it was the other way around? i dunno. they bother died at the same time anyway. suckage.

andi*pandi · Feb 9, 2002, 10:23 AM

hrm. Maybe I haven't used it long enough for it to suck, or maybe iomega improved quality control.

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Naplander · Feb 10, 2002, 08:37 AM

We have a USB predator too.

I have had absolutely no problems with this drive.

It is fast and has worked flawlessly in the MAC OS.

G4 Mac User · Feb 10, 2002, 07:01 PM

I have an iOmega 650 CD USB burner I got from uBid.com for 70 bucks last July and it works great. With Toast Titanium I can burn a full cd in 17 minutes. OK so it's not fast - I did not pay for speed as you can see by the 70 bucks I did pay. Also just hide the burn and do something else on the mac. It's only slow if I have to wait 17 minutes to use my computer but thanks to multi-tasking it is no problem.

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G4 Mac User · Feb 10, 2002, 07:13 PM

I have an iOmega 650 CD USB burner I got from uBid.com for 70 bucks last July and it works great. With Toast Titanium I can burn a full cd in 17 minutes. OK so it's not fast - I did not pay for speed as you can see by the 70 bucks I did pay. Also just hide the burn and do something else on the mac. It's only slow if I have to wait 17 minutes to use my computer but thanks to multi-tasking it is no problem.

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