Freecom Classic DVD +/- RW DL Lightscribe

Advantages: Hard Working and reliable. Can be moved from PC to PC
Disadvantages: Desk space needed because it's external.

...DVD, I was looking at forking out £200+ for one, but now they can be found on Ebay for around £20 second-hand and brand new from between £40 and £90 for various models from various dealers found around the internet after a google search. In summary: I have owned an external CD-RW from Freecom (from the days before my PC came with an internal CD-RW fitted), that is still going strong. I can strongly recommend the Freecom products that I have always found to be dead easy to use by simply plugging into the USB port. Drivers come with the product, but I found it worked straightaway with my current Windows XP. The specs of my DVD-RW model are… Read Speed = 16x (DVD), 48x (CD) Write Speed = 48x (CD), 16x (DVD+R), 16x (DVD-R), 4x (DVD+R DL) Re-Write Speed = 24x (CD-RW), 4x (DVD+RW), 4x (DVD-RW) It works on USB2 (or backwards compatible... Read review

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Advantages: Great Value for money and reasonably fast as well.
Disadvantages: Can perform slowly on rewrites

...I have had problems with internal DVD drives in the past but this one sorted it all out. The Asus DRW1608P is a lovely grey machine and looks just like it does in the picture. the speeds are as follows: 5 x DVD-RAM 8 x DVD+RW 6 x DVD-RW 8 x DVD +/-R (DL) 40 x CD-R 32 x CD-RW Does not lightscribe. As i mentioned this machine can under perform slightly on RW but on the whole its fast and reliable. The best thing about this is it's price - mine cost £35 from a local shop but is available on line from £39. The reason why I chose this model is that it was the most recommended from Computer Shopper coming top of their polls. I have burned quite a few DVDs with this and they have all worked perfectly. It comes with firmware update and Nero Startsmart - although a license is required for full DVD burning capabilities. I would... Read review

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Advantages: Lightweight, small, portable and has lightsribe technology.
Disadvantages: Quite expensive £70, not the fastest drive around

...Quite recently I decided I was going to start to upgrade my computer get a few extra components, a couple of toys etc. So I looked at my bank account decided what I had to spend and went shopping. At the top of my list was a new CD/DVD RW drive that I could use in both my pc and laptop and could carry about with me easily with my laptop. So I wanted a lightweight, small, USB external drive. I started looking and found just what I was looking for and as an added bonus it had one very cool extra feature. It was the Liteon SSM-85H5SX. The added extra was the Lightscribe technology meaning I can design an image and then burn it onto the top side of a specially made disk. SPECIFICATIONS This is just a list of read, write and rewrite speeds. The complicated way to explain this is to say that the first CD drive read a 150 Kbps (kilobits per... Read review

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