I want a burner, should I go CDRW or DVDRW?

SwordWielder · Feb 21st, 03, 7:02 PM

I'd like to have a burner, but should I get a normal CDRW or a DVDRW? All I wanna do is burn music, and backup files with it. Can you give me prices for both and what brands you reccommend?

**James** · Feb 22nd, 03, 3:48 PM

I guess that depends on what type of files you want to backup.. Because you can do that with both drives. Of course the DVDRW will store much more data.

It depends on what you want to pay. Prices... I'll look em up later.

SwordWielder · Feb 23rd, 03, 3:13 PM

Hmm... probably a DVD burner would be smarter then. What do you suggest? anyone?

**James** · Feb 23rd, 03, 10:46 PM

here's a really good dvd burner.. same brand that I have for my cd burner.

It's the Plextor PX-504A

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The Plextor PX-504A delivers blazing-fast 4X DVD+R writing and 2.4X DVD+RW and 12X DVD-ROM read speeds. In addition to recording, rewriting and read DVD discs at multiple speeds, it also supports 16X CD-R write, 10X CD-RW rewrite and 40X CD-ROM read. Create a 4.7 GB disc on DVD media in less than fifteen minutes for work and play. The Plextor PX-504A will deliver top performance no matter how you spend your time, project after project, year after year.

The system specs are pretty high.. I am surprised!

Quote:

CPU: Pentium III 800 MHz or equivalent (minimum)
CPU: Pentium 4 1.6 GHz or equivalent (suggested)
RAM: 128MB
HDD: 800MB-1GB

Price: $274.58

That's a lot less then what I thought it would be.

SwordWielder · Feb 24th, 03, 1:49 PM

Thats a low price? sort of high.. but it does do what I want. my pc should be fine, its a piii 1Ghz 256mb of ram, and i have a 30GB drive anyways.

**James** · Mar 5th, 03, 3:03 PM

What did you decide??

SwordWielder · Mar 6th, 03, 4:14 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by James
What did you decide??

I think I'm going to give in and buy it...... wait, it says Pre order, guess I will have to wait.. Hopefully Roxio CD Creater 6.

XavierYZ · Mar 6th, 03, 6:06 PM

I am not sure if I would go the route of DVD'RW

with DVD writers you will only be able to use them in DVD drives(this is fine for your one dvd rw system or dvd drive you might have) but what happens when a dvd rom isn't available to copy the media.

DVD right now is only good for digital media (really large files)

I would prolly go with a cdrw for now, you can get a 48X24K48 burner for under 100USD and that my friend is blazing fast, I can burn a complete 700meg CD under 4 mins.

One thing I am not sure! can dvdrw write to CDr's?

also blank DVDr's are very expensive compared to its counterpart

**James** · Mar 6th, 03, 7:48 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by XavierYZ
I am not sure if I would go the route of DVD'RW

with DVD writers you will only be able to use them in DVD drives(this is fine for your one dvd rw system or dvd drive you might have) but what happens when a dvd rom isn't available to copy the media.

DVD right now is only good for digital media (really large files)

I would prolly go with a cdrw for now, you can get a 48X24K48 burner for under 100USD and that my friend is blazing fast, I can burn a complete 700meg CD under 4 mins.

One thing I am not sure! can dvdrw write to CDr's?

also blank DVDr's are very expensive compared to its counterpart

That burner can write to DVD and CD's, thats why it costs so much.. plus the speeds are pretty fast for DVDs right now.

SwordWielder · Mar 10th, 03, 12:00 AM

I'm buying it...

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