Yeah it was great for about 3-4 months and then it wouldn't burn. They confirmed it had a hardware failure and sent another. Now when I stick discs in, the yellow light just flashes after about 10 seconds instead of spinning up and going out. I wanted to rip Vapor Trails (which I just received from Amazon today) but I will have to use my CD player until I get a new drive, as the Ricoh is my only drive right now. I am thinking I'm just going to go out and buy a $20 CD-ROM drive or something as a backup to whatever my main drive ends up being. Then I could send the Ricoh in for repairs and EBay it. Damn Ricoh.