Packaging and Presentation
Many thanks go to BigPockets who
where kind enough to send us this drive to review for our CDR-Zone.COM readers.
It is a beige full retail unit, supplied with all cables and screws as well as
Record Now software for recording to media and WinDVD 5 software for
watching DVD films on your PC. Also included in the retail package was one 16x
Phillips DVD+R media as well as BenQs own Q-Video software and Book Type changing utility.
The unit itself is a full size drive, being only 198 mm deep and weighing 1 kg making it ideal for normal PCs, fitting perfectly into our review case. On the front of the drive BENQ includes an ear phone jack and a volume control. Should the drive for any reason refuse to eject any media it also has an emergency release mechanism. On the back of the drive there are 2 outputs one for Digital and one for analogue, a jumper setting for Master/Slave or cable select, a standard 40 pin IDE cable input and a 4 pin molex power supplyinput.
This drive was manufactured in June of 2004, with firmware B5G9 and gives the serial number should you need to quote it if ever the drives needs to be sent back under warranty.
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