CNET

Combo DVD/CD-RW drives flourish

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 ...
CNET

HP unveils first DVD+RW drive

The war over DVD recording standards will escalate Monday when Hewlett-Packard unwraps the details on its first DVD drive for PCs that lets people repeatedly record on discs. The DVD-writer dvd100i, ...
ZDNet

HP to drop CD-RW drives for DVDs

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 ...
Macworld

Hands on with MCE’s CDRW/DVD drive for PowerBook G3s

I’ve had a pretty good relationship with my PowerBook G3/333MHz over the years. Since I got it in 1999 it’s traveled everywhere with me, on road trips, to countless trade shows, even on vacation. I’m ...
Macworld

NAB: LaCie rolls out new CD-RW, combo DVD-RAM/R drives

Besides their new DVD-R/CD-RW drive, LaCie is also introducing two other new devices — a 24x10x40x CD-RW drive and combination DVD-RAM/R drive — at this week’s National Association of Broadcasters ...
Ars Technica

Review: Pioneer DVR-A04 DVD-RW drive

DVD-writers are slowly but surely on their way to being "all the rage," with fans egged-on no doubt by the technologies' (yeah, there's more than one) multi-faceted uses. Not only can you store ...
Small Business Computing

First Look: Sony’s Second Generation DVD+RW/+R and CD-R/RW Drives

Sony Electronics announced its next generation of DVD+RW drives, which support write-once recording on DVD+R discs. Both the DRU-120A ATAPI internal model and the DRX-120L i.LINK external burner ...
EDN

Rewritable DVD drive uses SATA interface

Said to be the first Serial ATA 18X DVD burner on the market, the SH-S183L drive has transfer rates of 150, 300, and 600 Mbytes/s, making it one of the fastest rewritable DVD drives available. The ...
Gizmodo

World’s smallest external DVD/CD-RW drive

To add to today’s previous posts about the world’s smallest fuel cell and rugged Tablet PC, it’s the world’s smallest external DVD/CD-RW drive. The Komodo is just six-tenths of an inch thick and ...
eWeek

Four High-Speed CD-RW Drives

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 ...
Ars Technica

CD-RW and DVD primary, secondary, master, slave?

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 ...