Do combo movie-watching and music-recording drives have the write stuff? Apparently PC manufacturers think so. After a slow start, combination CD-rewritable and DVD drives are showing up in computers ...

I am trying to find out the best way to set up my DVD and CD-RW drives. ie Should I install them both on the secondary IDE bus and which should be master or should I install the CD-RW on the secondary ...

it'll wear out just as fast as a cdrom drive will. there are different lasers for reading and writing (I'm 75% sure on this one) <BR><BR>oh, and pc world has not been a good source for about the last ...

Sony is aiming to double the pleasure of CD-R and CD-RW lovers. On Tuesday, the consumer electronics giant unveiled Double Density CD-R and CD-RW drives and discs. Dubbed DD-R and DD-RW, the discs can ...

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Office equipment giant Ricoh said it will exhibit the world's first CD-ReWritable (CD-RW) drive at the CeBit trade show in Hannover, Germany this week. The Japanese firm's six-speed read, two-speed ...

ORLANDO, FLA. — Yamaha Corporation of America unveiled a CD-RW rewritable CD recorder with FireWire interface, powered speaker systems for PCs and CD-R blank discs during Fall RetailVision, here, ...

The Good: Fast drive burns CD-Rs in minutes. Low noise, low heat. The Bad: The drive's 8MB buffer minimizes the chance of buffer under-run but doesn't eliminate it. The Verdict: A fast, efficient, ...

HLDS (Hitachi-LG Data Storage) and TSST (Toshiba-Samsung Storage Technology) are soon to cease manufacturing of both CD-ROM and CD-RW drives. Not too big of a surprise since the last time I went ...

If the new 52X CD drives could actually write at 52X speeds over an entire disc, you'd be able to duplicate a 650MB CD in about 1 minute 20 seconds. But the units reviewed here are constant angular ...