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The one thing that was a little odd was that the power and data connectors hook into the side of this drive, making its effective width about two-and-a-half inches wider than the drive itself. The cables included with the drive gave us plenty of room to move it around, and it seemed to operate just fine even if we jostled it (or flat out moved it) during a burn. In addition to size affecting the portability of this drive, it also makes it very easy to fit onto our already cluttered desks. Not only did it stand up to the harsh, sun-baked conditions inside the baggage compartments of today's aircraft, but it is small enough to slip into a laptop carrying case for a day on the road. With MACWORLD Expo NY2000 included in our testing period, we decided to test the road-worthiness of this drive and pack it in a suitcase on the way to the Big Apple. All the CDs worked fine after burning, including Audio CDs, with some of those burned directly from MP3s (note that only the standard edition of Toast is included with the drive - to burn MP3s directly to disk without prior conversion requires Toast Deluxe).įor us, this is a resounding "Yes" (did you hear it resound? We knew you would). Among the various Media we used were "middle of the road" 74-minute media, "real cheap" 80-minute media, and we even burned 5 or 6 CD-R's on to a stack of very old CompUSA 74-minute media that no other CD-R/W that we've tried will even recognize anymore. Never once did we have a bad burn, and we burned over 50 CD-R disks and CD-R/W disks during our time with this drive. 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.
#Toast for mac 9.0.4 windows#
(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.
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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.
#Toast for mac 9.0.4 portable#
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 Express Daily Newsletter