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Nov 26, 2001, 9:46am

what is the best CD-RW drive out their today?
I had one by HP and it went defunked after the first 3 months I had it.
I need one that will read and write to both CDR's and CDRW's and also will
let me make my own music CD's

Nov 26, 2001, 2:19pm

I just got a TDK Velo CDRW. It rocks & was easy to set up. Has Burnproof.
Comes with TDK Blender and that includes Nero 5.0. On sale on TDK's site for
$149. Specs - 24X write( Takes me 3-4 minutes to burn a music CD) , 10X
re-write, 40X read, 40X rip (5 seconds to rip a CD) . Have it on a Dell
800pIII. Set it to master.

I had got a Yamaha Lightwave - Was defective out of the box. Sent it back,
got this TDX, very happy.

Casay

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Nov 26, 2001, 5:16pm

Hi,

> what is the best CD-RW drive out their today?
> I had one by HP and it went defunked after the first 3 months I had it.
> I need one that will read and write to both CDR's and CDRW's and also will
> let me make my own music CD's

Not sure if this is 100% Correct, one of my friends has one... He's using a
Sony burner and says it is one of the best, it can override some security
features found on game CD's and so forth.

Both Sony and TDK have been in close combat for CD/Video/Tape related.

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Nov 26, 2001, 10:36pm

Just make sure the drive you get is a BurnProof drive. BurnProof keeps bad
CDs from being created.
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Nov 27, 2001, 3:05am

"Plextor" is one of the best brands out there, it supports full RAW-DAO 96
writing mode, and has full burn-proof support, and "TDK" is the second best,
both have fairly good prices.
another good one i heard about from a friend which i dont know anything
about is "Lite-On", all three support burn-proof. from there i think that
"Panasonic" and "Toshibas" are about the same and i dont know much about
"Sony" but i have heard bad things about them. and of course Philips are
always good, but if i were you, i would stick with Plextor or TDK


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Nov 27, 2001, 4:34pm

From PC World- Rating the top CD Burners

1) Yamaha Light Speed 20X/10X/40X - Nero 5.5
2) TDK 24X/10X/40X - Nero 5.5 + Burn Proof(Came in second because of a
minor install problem that TDK has already fixed. Burns faster than the
Yamaha one and has Burn Proof. Yamaha doesn't. This is the one I have and I
didn't have any installation problems. Yamaha installed faster for them
also)
3) Plextor PlexWriter 16X/10X/40X - Easy CD Creator.
4) TDK 16X/10X/40X

#1 & #2 were given as best buys. TDX or Plextor would be the better ones.
The LightSpeed still has 'noise' problems I think. The one I had sounded
like a jet taking off when it was spinning. At the time of the review the
Yamaha also cost less but TDK dropped the price a ton so( Was $245 in
article, now $149) ....... I think if they re-did it today TDK would come
out on top and Plextor or Yamaha would be in #2. I don't like Easy CD
Creator so that's the only reason I didn't look at the Plextor although they
are very good and reliable. Also, got my TDK on sale... lol

Casay


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Nov 27, 2001, 5:03pm

cool, I have a Yamaha 16x/10x/40x :-))

KAH

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Nov 29, 2001, 12:32am

Uh, well, I had a HP one that lasted over 5 years. I recently just upgrade
to the HP CD16r though. Works great. Mostly using it with Nero Burning ROM
5.5.5.8


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