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1996-2025
by TSW
(Nikolay Tuzhilin)

Last updated: 22.01.2025

Review

On of the most optimal CD-RW drives in the market on present moment (Moscow, Q1'2001). Although its characteristics 4x4x32 is not impress you compared to the new models with 10x, 12x or even 16x speed, you should consider the fact that ordinary CD-RW user uses it overall maximum twice a day to write about 200-300M (and I think that you will use it even more rare). Will this 200M be written for 5 minutes or for 3 (2 or 1) does not really mater for most of users to pay twice or trice more. And you must search very hard to find disks that able be written on on speed higher than 8x. You may argue with this theory, but it suits me well and I bought the drive with the simplest 4x4x32 speeds.

What is very good is its noise. More correctly to say that there is no noise at all! You can read any CD at full speed and the drive will be silent so you will even think that it did not work.

What very disappoints me in the new drives, that manufacturers try to make them as cheaper as they can and the most popular way to do so seems to make two LED with the same color. How I supposed to determine when the drive writes when the read LED and write LED are put close to each other and both lights by green? So I had to disassemble my drive and replaced one of the LED with my own red one. Now all fine.

The following specifications are copied from the official TEAC web site (original).

Specifications