CD-ROM Drive - internal - CD-ROM - 40x - 5.25" - IDE

Advantages: Quality and reliability of drive
Disadvantages: Outdated and discontinued model

...The Teac 532 cd rom drive is an cd-rom reader that is designed to be fitted internally into a PC. I had this unit in my PC for about 2 years before I decided to upgrade the whole system. I paid about £120 for this drive and at the time 32x read speed was about the industry standard. How times change as now we are looking up to 72x read speeds on cd-rom drives, which make this unit look positively tortoise-like! Specs This cd-rom drive is compatible with operating systems up to Windows 98. It has a 32x read speed and needs to be fitted into a IDE interface inside the computer. The drive measures, (W) 5.75” (H) 1.65” (D) 7.56”. It weighs 2.65lbs. Overall these are the standard measurements for a cd-rom drive, otherwise it wouldn’t fit into your computer! On the front panel of the unit, from left to right there are, headphone socket... Read review

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Advantages: Low Cost with Burning Software Included
Disadvantages: No IDE cable included in box

...This is an internal CDRW and fits in the drive bay of a standard PC. CD Read speed: 52x CD-R Write speed: 52x CDRW Write speed: 24x This cost me £25.00 from a local computer shop, great value for money. Writer is fairly easy to install, I just copied the configuration of my old CD writer (jumper switch on the back needs to be set to Master or Slave). The instruction sheet is pretty basic but fairly easy to understand and has diagrams of each step required. Comes boxed with Nero burning ROM software. This only works with the CD writer it was supplied with (fair enough, I suppose). This is the first time I have used Nero software, and I found it extremely easy to use....it only took me 10mins to burn a CD for the first time. An audio cable is included for connection to your sound card. An IDE cable is NOT included, so you may need... Read review

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Advantages: Cheap (around 85£), good quality
Disadvantages: Slow compared to the most recent cd recorders

...Few weeks ago, wondering around the web, looking for something interesting to buy with my beenz, I found this nice cd recorder: Philips PCRW804. It is very easy to install, I just put it in the right slot, connected to the secondary IDE as master (I preferred to leave cd rom on primary IDE as slave, this speeds up data transfer from cd rom to cd recorder), and started my pc. Windows 98 recognised the recorder immadiately, without the need to install any other driver. Philips PCRW804, can write CD-R and CD-RW, it writes CD-R at 8x and CD-RW at 4x; reading speed is 32x. I tested it with many different kinds of CD-R and CD-RW and it didn't give me any problem at all (using Nero 5.5.1.8). This recorder will save a lot of space on your hard disk and will let you bring your software or music anywhere you like!... Read review

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