Product Description

The MegaSTOR Triple Format - BURN up to 9.4 GB of data on ONE piece of double sided DVD-RAM media or up to 8.5 GB of data on one piece of double layer DVD+-RW media! MegaSTOR Triple format turns your optical storage solution into a virtual hard drive - rewrites up to 100,000 times to a single piece of DVD-RAM media. Create music CDs, convert up to 16 hours of VHS quality movies to DVD media, or eliminate that paper clutter by storing up to 4 million pages of text on one piece of DVD+-RW DL media. MegaSTOR Triple Format is backward compatible - it supports ANY single or double layer DVD+-RW, DVD-RAM, CD-R or CD-RW media. Includes Full Version of Roxio Easy Creator 8 Software Mad Dog Multimedia 2-Year Warranty

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #51206 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Mad Dog
• Model: MD-18XTFAE
• Dimensions: 5.10 pounds
• Hard Disk: 0GB

Features

• Performs Like a Virtual Hard Drive - rewrite to the same piece of DVD-RAM media up to 100,000 times
• Stores up to 9.4GB of data - store up to 9.4 GB of data on a single piece of double sided DVD-RAM media
• Stores up to 8.5GB of data - store up to 8.5 GB of data on a single piece of double- layer DVD+-R media
• Anodized Aluminum Enclosure Dissipates Heat and looks great next to a PC
• Unit Dimensions - 7 W x 2 H x 9.75 L (175mm x 50mm x 245mm) / Weighs 3.2 lbs. (1.4 kg)

Customer Reviews

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The Maddog multimedia is a great device I have 2. I've purchase one from Circuit City the middle of last year, It hasn't gave me any trouble yet. They are the best and they are tough!

Working ok, but company is long-gone...
I bought one of these drives a little over 2 years ago. So far I've burned around 900 DVDs with it and as far as I can tell, it's still working the same as when I bought it. However...

It seems to be very picky about what brand of disc I use. Sony discs didn't work at all, cheap Staples discs work one day and not the next. Memorex seem to work most of the time, but will sometimes start failing for no apparent reaon. TDK, which is what I normally use, works most of the time with only an occasional failure. FujiFilm discs seem to always work great.

When I burn, the disc will often have what I call "soft errors". During the verify phase, or when accessing the files on the disc, the drive will often start making an "er-eet" sound repeatedly as it tries to read the files on the last 10-20% of the disc. Sometimes it will just be a single occurance, sometimes it will do it several times in a row before you hear the drive slow down and it continues. Sometimes this results in Nero reporting a read error, but usually not. At first I used to re-burn such discs until I got one that didn't show any problems, but I quickly realized that I'd go broke if I re-burned every disc that didn't work perfectly. I burn an SFV file for every file right to the disk and use it to test the files from Windows. If every file passes this test in a reasonably quick time with no errors, I keep the disc.

I'd ask the company about this behavior, but apparently Mad Dog Multimedia is now out of business. The web site no longer works and their phone numbers are disconnected.

When it stops working, I'll probably look for some other name brand. Hopefully by that time, new DVD burners will be selling for $20 or less...