CD drive or CD writer?
Mar. 23rd, 2002 04:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ciphergothA 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,
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,
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Date: 2002-03-23 02:39 pm (UTC)I guess you've already had people say that it will work, which is
what I would have said.
I guess the important thing to ask is does she actually need
a writer?
If not you're probably better off not bothering...