Pioneer DVR-SK12D
November 5th, 2003 | by Ian Bell
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Average user rating from 6 users |
Decent drive, decent price, no issu
by Jesse E on Mar 10th, 2005 at 3:00 PM:
I picked this up from an Air Force base I was deployed to and was impressed. I have an external burner at home, but needed one here and the size was definitely a factor. My other drive is nearly as large as my Dell C400 and weighs more, but this is the size of 2 CD cases stacked on top of one another and weighs next to nothing. Burn speeds arent super, but waht do you expect from a portable drive. For USB 1.1 use i highly reccommend it!
WORKS WELL ON USB
by M. Andrade on Aug 16th, 2004 at 12:14 PM:
Flawless performance on USB connection. For some reason my laptop sometimes does not recognize the drive if connected on Firewire. Or it recognizes it and when I put a blank DVD disk it does not recognize it as a DVD writer. Could be a problem with my laptop set up or the fact I am using a card connector for Firewire.
Works on Mac as well
by Guy Cortes on Mar 21st, 2004 at 4:14 PM:
Just wanted to note that the unit works on a Mac (PowerBook) as well, thought the article said otherwise. Use toast - not the included programs.
Absolutely useless if not bus powered...
by SR on Jan 21st, 2004 at 11:20 PM:
What's the point of an ultra light and slim portable burner if it isn't bus-powered? In this day and age why can't a major manufacturer make a bus powered external slim drive? For the time being we have to make do with no name manufacturers like Buslink, Archos, Storix etc.
This can't be that hard to do.
As a side note there are two DVD burners from major manufacturers that I know are bus powered one is an IBM branded drive that costs $500 and the other is a Sony Vaio part that also costs around $500 if not more.
I believe Archos makes one for closer to $300, but who wants no name stuff from a company that could go out of business tomorrow?
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there's no portable in "portable"
by travis on Aug 5th, 2005 at 6:30 AM:
What's the point, Pioneer?
There's even a deceiving picture of a man on a beach with a laptop... oh how I wish.