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 ...

Retrospect and TEAC drives: a follow-up We have previously noted that Retrospect does not work with TEAC-based QPS CD-RW drives. Henry Cline received a detailed reminder of this from Dantz: "Check to ...

It’s impossible to beat CD-R media in terms of cost or compatibility for backing up important files; freeing up hard drive space; and burning all your favorite tunes to a perfect mixed CD for a friend ...

Apple puts CD-RW drives and combo drives on most of its newer Mac models except for the low-end iBook, but that still leaves hundreds of thousands of older Mac models out there without the ability to ...

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 ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. If the new 52X CD drives could actually write at 52X ...

Although it is No. 1 in sales of add-on CD-rewritable drives, Hewlett-Packard is exiting that market so it can better concentrate on the emerging, and potentially more profitable, demand for ...

I think I know the answer to this, but I wanted to see if there are considerations I'm not aware of.<BR><BR>I have always steered clear of CD-RW media because in the early days, they wouldn't read on ...

The 1.44-megabyte floppy-disk drive is an endangered species largely because its primary predator, the CD-rewritable drive, uses media that can store up to 700MB per disk and costs only about $100. CD ...

Despite lackluster PC sales, CD-ROM, CD-RW and DVD-ROM drives are all enjoying remarkable sales growth this year. Among them, CD-RW drives boast the largest market demand and growth momentum.

Taiwan-based Lite-On IT, the world’s third-largest optical storage media manufacturer, confirmed on July 31 that it had received an order from Dell Computer for 24x CD-RW drives. The company said that ...