Don't know where you've heard things. I have an HP 8100. I did a bunch of
research before I bought the drive and didn't find many problems  at all.
In fact, I've never burned a bad disk with it.  Of course, I'm sure one will
fail today now that I've said that.

Ben Moore

>
>    I'd stay away from the HP, as of the many brands of writers, HP seems
> the one "I've" heard more problems with. I haven't heard anything on the
> Ricoh yet, but the Iomega ZipCD is a good drive that come with loads of
> quality software.
>
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