Product Description

The Samsung SM-332 Combo is an optical disk drive that combines CD-RW and DVD-ROM drives into one mechanism. Available in half-height form factor, the drive offers speeds ranging up to 32X Writing, 10X Rewriting, 40X CD Reading, and 12X DVD Reading. Able to solve all your optical needs, the SM-332 offers an EIDE/ATAPI interface for easy installation and a high capacity buffer memory of 8MB to ensure smooth reading of any DVD-ROM. The drive can be mounted both horizontally and vertically, and includes Samsung's DVA (Dynamic Vibration Absorber) to help reduce noise and vibration. The SM-332 includes Optical Pick-ups adopting Annular Mask Lens, and its soft MPEG decoder plays DVD-Video without an MPEG decoder board. The drive reads may disc types, including DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-Video, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, CD-DA, CD-ROM/XA, Video-CD, Multisession Photo CD, Extra CD and CD Text.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #40935 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Samsung
• Model: 332

Customer Reviews

Solid drive
I've had great success with this drive after purchasing it three weeks ago. I have a small Dell tower with only one 5.25" bay, so I decided to go the combo route. It installed with no problems. I've burned music cd's from MusicMatch Jukebox and Nero (the latest version of which recognizes the drive instantly), running Windows 98 SE. CD-r's burn in less than 4 minutes. I've also used CD-rw's at 4x, made multisession disks, video cd's, erased cd-rw's--no problems at all. The drive has JustLink coaster protection and an 8 mb buffer, which seem to work very well as I've not had an error yet. When burning at high speed, the drive makes an irritating high-pitched noise, but it is reasonably quiet otherwise. If you are looking for a near-silent drive, look elsewhere.

DVD's sometimes stutter w/the included PowerDVD, but that is probably because the bundled PowerDVD demands a lot of CPU power and I've got a PIII 550. My ATI DVD player demands less processing power and they play fine.

very good drive
Extremly reliable drive, good for burning multiple cds and playing dvds. Didn't really cause me a problem. Only problems that existed came from the OS (windows ME uggh!). So, all in all this is a reliable and worthy purchase at a good cost.

Very Reliable Drive
Any negative reviews about this drive is inaccurate. I'm not sure if the drive is compatible with Windows 2K, but just because it isn't doesn't mean it deserves a 1 star rating. The drive itself works great (for Win XP Pro). Why not just opt for the CD-RW/DVD combo. Its a great deal for what is basically two drives in one and it certainly won't generate as much heat as two drives in one computer. Although 32x isn't the max speed you can get, you spend about 15-45 extra seconds burning a CD with a 48x drive-big wow. As for the manufacturer, Samsung is a very reliable and well-known manufacturer. I can assure you that Samsung is not a 2nd rate manufacturer of electronics. They have been in the electronics business for decades. In the past, they sold many of their products under their name in their home nation, Korea, and most of their products were sold under different brands in other countries i.e. USA. It was only until the past several years that Samsung decided to sell under its own name. To make a long story short, Samsung makes great reliable products and an especially reliable CD-RW/DVD drive.