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.

CNN: IDG.net - Recordable and rewritable CD drives: Permanent, portable storage

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

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

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.

CNN: Verbatim to ship first 4X CD-RW drive

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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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.

CNN: Sony Digital Studio allows professional video editing on a PC

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.

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The drive will include packet writing software for CD-RW and Cequadrat JustBurn for creating data and audio CDs.

CNN: Verbatim to ship first 4X CD-RW drive

We then install each drive, noting any difficulties, and load the bundled software for CD-R and CD-RW writing.

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