CD drive or CD writer?

[ciphergoth]

A request for PC hardware advice...

Alison's new computer lacks only a CD drive to make it go. We could buy a bargain-bin drive from the local dodgy bargain-bin computer store (http://www.silicon-group.co.uk/) for £20. Or we could buy a PHILIPS 16x20x40 CDRW Burnproof for £70.

If we spend the extra £50, will the drive actually go? Will it reliably read and write CD-Rs and CD-RWs, rather than creating a lot of decorative coasters like my current CD-R? Is it worth spending more and getting a better one?

thanks,

Comments

[zz]

i've never really had coaster problems with internal cd writers at all, just the dodgy parallel port ones..