CDRW/DVD or DVDRW Help A Newbie Make A Decision!!

[Michael Roback]

I am in a dilemma. I have a pc I built. It has a very slow processor
200MMX. One of my kids broke the CD Rom. I am wanting to replace it with
either a CDRW or a DVDRW. I will use the drive mostly for backups. I only
have a 1.7Gig HD. I will be building a faster more contemporary system in
the next few months. Do I get a CDRW, a CDRWDV combo drive, or a DVDRW
which I hear reads, writes and rewrites to both CD and DVD. The cost of DVD
seems to be a great advantage but my hard drive is small. Help if you can.

 

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i`d opt for the DVDRW. and it's true what you read, afaik ALL DVDRW drives
can write CDR/CDRW's

at the moment, a DVDRW, is a bit overkill for your system. but since your
upgrading in the near future, then it's not so much a bad idea.

at the end of the day, all DVD is, is a convience from swapping lots of CD's
around. which i`m sure you`ll agree, having lots of loose CD's around on
your desk aint very nice. far more friendly to have it all on 1 disc for
convience.

tim

 

[Ralph Mowery]

I am in a dilemma. I have a pc I built. It has a very slow processor

200MMX. One of my kids broke the CD Rom. I am wanting to replace it with
either a CDRW or a DVDRW. I will use the drive mostly for backups. I only
have a 1.7Gig HD. I will be building a faster more contemporary system in
the next few months. Do I get a CDRW, a CDRWDV combo drive, or a DVDRW
which I hear reads, writes and rewrites to both CD and DVD. The cost of DVD
seems to be a great advantage but my hard drive is small. Help if you

can.

It is doubtful that you can run a DVDRW on your system. Just buy one of the
CDRW drives for about $ 20 that is on sale after the rebates. Especially if
you are going to give the kids that computer to play on or if you just want
to keep it for a backup unit incase the new one crashes.

 

[Bas Ruiter]

On my old 233MMX I used to have a 48x CD-RW, but even at 8x speed (1200
kB/s) burning the system had trouble keeping up and keeping the CD-RW
supplied with data to burn. It's due to JustLink that I didn't end up
with buffer underruns and ruined disks.

I assume DVD writers also have things like JustLink, so you won't end u
with ruined DVD's. But you probably won't even get 1x DVD burning speeds
(1385 kB/s), meaning burning a complete DVD is going to take an hour or
more.

If I were you, I'd just get a CD-RW (or CD-RW/DVD combo) and just leave
that in the old system when you build the new one in a few months. And
equip your new system with a current DVD+-RW model when you do build
that machine.

 

[ToolPackinMama]

can.

It is doubtful that you can run a DVDRW on your system. Just buy one of the
CDRW drives for about $ 20 that is on sale after the rebates. Especially if
you are going to give the kids that computer to play on or if you just want
to keep it for a backup unit incase the new one crashes.

I agree. Don't put such a fancy drive into such an old computer. It's
just ~wrong~.

 

[bogustxtburnetga]

I am in a dilemma. I have a pc I built. It has a very slow processor
200MMX. One of my kids broke the CD Rom. I am wanting to replace it with
either a CDRW or a DVDRW. I will use the drive mostly for backups. I only
have a 1.7Gig HD. I will be building a faster more contemporary system in
the next few months. Do I get a CDRW, a CDRWDV combo drive, or a DVDRW
which I hear reads, writes and rewrites to both CD and DVD. The cost of DVD
seems to be a great advantage but my hard drive is small. Help if you can.

LITE ON 48X/24X/48X CDRW +16X DVD W/Nero Burning Software $51

 

[LeeB18509]

LITE ON 48X/24X/48X CDRW +16X DVD W/Nero Burning Software $51

I've got one, works great.