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Advantages: fast,simple,easy,good price
Disadvantages: none so far

...I went for USB, my Hp CD Writer + 8930e, cost £190 of my savings, not a fortune compared to the standard internal drives. The installation was so easy, even a novice could understand it, the manual told you precisely what you have to do. Unpack the drive, plug in the power cable, connect to your PC, and switch it on. And then a message in Win98 is displayed, asking for your supplied installation disks. That is what really made this purchase a result ...
...supplied is Adaptec’s DirectCD and HP MyCD. MyCD simply asks you to put in your disk, asks you if you are making an audio CD, or a data CD, then you can simply drag and drop your files into the main window. Really it is that easy, you just press the create button, and in enough time to finish reading the paper, out pops your CD, completed. Now obviously there are many other software out there, giving more advanced options, but really if all ... Read review

Advantages: User friendly plays various formats
Disadvantages: needs to have a faster write speed

...what you would expect of sony although the headphone do hurt my ears alittle As this is a couple of years old now there are far quicker external writers available. This machine will write at a speed of 4x so it can take around 20 minutes to wrtie a whole cd, but I dont sit and write cds all day so i would only consider this as a minor disadvantage I believe the price was £100, which, as far as external writers go is fairly expensive, but fter all ... Read review

Advantages: External and can be easily moved between computers
Disadvantages: Low data transfer rates

...package consists of the drivers, HP MusicMatch Jukebox, HP CD-Labeller, Print Shop Multimedia Organiser and Sonic Foundry's Acid Music, I haven't ever felt the need to use any of this software except for the drivers. The drive is very quiet, it doesn't make the horrible clunky noises that some drives make. The only problem is the slow data transfer rates - it can only write at 4x which is very slow compared to internal CD writers. This is a property ... Read review

Advantages: Does the job, works with XP, good budget buy
Disadvantages: Big, noisy, tempremental...

...on eBay and bought this Memorex for £40. Chuffed with the price for what is concidered a reliable make of CD drivers/audio equipment, I didn't care that the speeds etc were a little pre-modern. Of course, if you are looking for a good, fast, modern, and of course, attractive looking external CD-RW... don't bother with the BBQ200. For a start, the drive you'll want is probably £100 upwards and the BBQ200 is now old and none of the above. However, ...
...job 99% of the time, and are quite happy to sling it on your kid's computer without worry of it getting bashed about, this is ideal. It's pointless using the drive just for reading CDs for two reasons: the BBQ200's fan is extremely noisy and it will upset the neighbours, drive the dog crazy and wake the baby. Plus it's only 6x, which is like using a Victorian horse-and-cart on tracks made for Japanese Bullet Trains. If you try installing big programs ... Read review

Advantages: it is portable and can be taken anywhere
Disadvantages: deosn't burn as fast as the ones in your computer

The portable disk drive is very for people who own laptops or for people who travel a lot e.g. business people etc... As well as copying CD it and play them so it's a combo drive which is always handy. The size of the drive is not very big it's 13.5 cm x 16 cm x 2.8 cm and it doesn’t weight as much only 0.3 kg and it is an external drive which mean that you don't have to open anything just plug in and install the driver's and away you go it's that ...
...necessary cables need to operate the device the speed it read and write at is 8x writing and 24x reading and rewriting speed is 4x which I think is not bad it will only take about 10 to 15 minutes longer than your PC re-writer which is obviously faster so compared to that is it good. ... Read review