But Verbatim claims the 4420 will completely format a 650MB CD-RW disc in less than 30 seconds.
The program supports CD-R and CD-RW drives, Iomega (Zip, Jaz, etc.) drives, and several portable MP3 players.
The drive will include packet writing software for CD-RW and Cequadrat JustBurn for creating data and audio CDs.
We then install each drive, noting any difficulties, and load the bundled software for CD-R and CD-RW writing.
If you've heard the buzz about these next-generation recordable drives, you're probably wondering if you should skip CD-RW altogether.
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These often include features the lightweights lack, especially CD-ROM, DVD or CD-RW drives.
But random erase is becoming more common, and is, for example, available in the current generation of Hewlett-Packard CD-RW drives.
Some existing CD-RW drives require that the whole CD-RW disc be erased before new data can be written to it.
We had the worst experiences with Ricoh's Media Master MP-6200S, a CD-RW drive, and MicroNet's Master CD Plus 4X12PC, a CD-R model.
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If you're looking for a CD-RW drive to share with others, check out the external version of this drive, HP's CD-Writer Plus 7200e.
CNN: IDG.net - Recordable and rewritable CD drives: Permanent, portable storage
EBay has tried to counter this by making it impossible to search for certain words, such as "backup" and "CD-RW, " in the software category.
Like CD-RW on steroids, DVD-RAM drives can record and rewrite up to 5.2GB on one double-sided disc--more than eight times the capacity of a CD.
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It's a snap to install and use, is the speediest CD-RW drive we tested, and comes with a raft of software besides the usual CD creation utilities.
CNN: IDG.net - Recordable and rewritable CD drives: Permanent, portable storage
In its definition of illegal, SIIA officials counted backup copies of software, as well as CD-RW software, regardless of whether the owner had a license or not.
Verbatim will also introduce new 4X-certified CD-RW media at Comdex.
The smaller models of this product family come only with a basic CD-ROM drive, but the CD-RW in the larger models really comes in handy when making your own videos.
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The 4420 will also offer "random erase technology" that lets you use a CD-RW disc just like a floppy or hard disk -- adding or deleting individual files at any time.
Unless you're burning from downloaded (perhaps pirated) songs, you'll have to go through the process of transforming CD song files into MP3s and then burning them onto CD-R or CD-RW disks.
The Vaio Digital Studio 547 computer includes a 500MHz Pentium III processor, 128 MB of RAM, a 8x DVD-ROM drive, a 4x Rewritable CD (CD-RW) drive, and a 20 GB hard drive.
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It comes complete with 15- or 14.1-inch displaces, Mobile P4 processors, up to 40 MB of storage and a choice of CD-ROM, CD-RW, DVD or a drive that can handle all of the above.
The player supports several types of discs including DVD-Audio, DVD-RAM, DVD-R, CD-R and CD-RW. There's also an SD Memory card slot, so you can look at photos you may have saved from a digital camera.
We judge CD-RW packet-writing performance by copying a folder containing 100MB of files to a CD-RW disc three times: first to the newly formatted blank disc, again after deleting the files from the first copy operation, and finally by overwriting the files from the second operation.
Next week at Comdex, Verbatim will roll out the 4420, which the company claims is the first CD-RW drive that offers 4X write on both CD-R and CD-RW media. (Current drives are limited to 2X write speeds for CD-RW.) The drive reads CD-ROMs, CD-R, and CD-RW media at 20X.
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