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 ...

Electronics maker Teac announced on Tuesday a new drive that can read and write data to CD discs faster than previous models. The internal 40x12x48 CD-RW drive can write data onto CD-R media at 40x ...

Back when blank CDs cost a whopping $5 each and 4X CD-R drives were the top of the line, it was hard to imagine the compact disc ever taking the place of the floppy disc. But now that blank CDs cost ...

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 ...

The first CD-RW drive I ever bought was an 8X4X32X unit for around $200 beans and I thought it was amazing how fast that thing could burn CD's. It took me only about 10 minutes to burn a full disc of ...

Q: My Windows XP computer came with a CD-RW drive but not a floppy- disk drive. Is there a way to save files on a CD that's as easy as saving to a floppy? Do I need special software? A: Saving data ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Office equipment giant Ricoh said it will exhibit the world's first CD-ReWritable (CD-RW) drive at the CeBit trade show in Hannover, Germany this week. The Japanese firm's six-speed read, two-speed ...

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 ...

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 ...