The box of this Plextor drive is pretty normal, there is nothing spectacular about the box but it does have a good amount of information on it. The back of the drive also has some useful information about the drive.
The packaging is very good just as the PlexWriter 40/12/40A was with the drive fully protected and the accessories in a separate box. The accessory box contains a Verbatim 4x DVD+R, Verbatim 80 min CD-R, manual, quick reference guide, screws, IDE cable, and Plextor’s DVD writing software bundle which includes the following software titles:
- Roxio Easy CD Creator 5 DVD Edition
- PhotoSuite 5 SE
- Roxio DirectCD
- CyberLink PowerDVD
- Dantz Retrospect Backup
The front of the drive is pretty standard as far as optical drives go. It has the headphone jack, volume control, manual eject hole, LED, and eject button. There are also some logos and such on the front. The back of the drive is also pretty standard and does not use a fan to help in cooling like some other Plextor drives do.
From the top of the drive you can see that it was manufactured in February 2003. The FCC ID: A3DND-1100A identifies the drive to be based on the NEC ND-1100A drive. There have been slight changes to the design and features however this is not a ground up drive.
