Origin Storage Slimline DVD±RW drive

Advantages: Cheap & Very Reliable
Disadvantages: Only 2x Speed

...These are one of the cheapest DVD-RW brands available. I bought my first pack about a year and a half ago and haven't looked back. The Company Datawrite is now becoming one of the most widely recognised and purchased brands in the field of optical media storage. Since its inception in 1992, Datawrite has managed to produce premium quality, affordable media. They are manufactured by Datasafe Media. The Disc are DVD-RW suitable for anyone who wants to temporay store data on. RW means ReWritable allowing you to erase the contents of the disc and fill again with new. Firstly I use a lot of DVD-RW discs. So I needed a disc I could rely on to store my data safely, to have good read/write ability with multiple burners and players and be light on my pocket. I think I have definitely found this with Datawrite DVD-RW discs. They are 4.7 GB... Read review

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Advantages: The software supplied, and the good instructions
Disadvantages: The speed

...This is an amazing DVD+RW/CD-RW drive at an amzing price. I bought this a few weeks ago off ebay for just £64.99, and for a DVD writer than is an amazing price. You can purchase this from cnet.com or compuvest.com for $93, The DW 7801 TE unites 6 functions in one device, it burns DVD+RW, DVD+r, CD-R AND CD-RW, and reads DVD-ROM and CD-ROM media. With this drive you can conveniently save your video, photo, and music files, with up to 4.7Gb on onw DVD+RW or DVD+R (replaces up to 7 CD-R). The huge capacity ood a DVD enables you to save your video and audio data in perfect original digital quality, and the accompanying software programs allow you not only to burn your data perfectly, you can also convert your video data to MPEG format, edit them, and play DVD's, DVD-R and DVD+RW on your computer with first class quality. This product... Read review

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Advantages: Can burn Dual Layer (8.5GB) media (4x speed), 16x speed for DVD+-R, CD-RW 32x24x40x
Disadvantages: Regions can be changed 5 times

...Pioneer DVR-108 16x DVD+/-RW is one of the best or the best DVD+-RW drive on the market. Pioneer's products has good reliability. With this drive you can burn 4.7GB data in about seven minutes. It's also supports writing Dual Layer media - 8.5 GB discs at 4x speed. If you're planing to buy DVD+-RW drive than choose Pioneer DVR-108. Pioneer name means quality. This drive isn't very fast, but burning and reading quality is excellent. It uses RPC-2 region protection. You can change region 5 times and then you will be locked on the last one. This is only one disadvantage of this drive, but now almost all DVD drives have protection from changing regions. I hope i help you to decide buy or not this great drive. I guarantee 99% that you will be satisfied your decision to buy this device.... Read review

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