While the cost of digital photography media is coming down, if you're a professional photographer - or a serious amateur - then shelling out for several Microdrives or other forms of high capacity memory card can ...

If you want to add a CD-RW drive to your PC, but don't want the hassle of digging around inside it, this stylish, external, USB 2 device from Iomega could be a great alternative. Based around ...

Here's an odd thing. Philips has released an external USB 2.0 combo drive called the Jackrabbit. Its official model code is the J32RWDV but both the box and the drive itself carry the word 'Jackrabbit' and ...

The PocketDrive CD-RW is, as the name suggests, a small, external CD-RW drive. The drive module itself is a notebook-style unit rather than a full-sized ATAPI model, and it is just about pocketable as long as ...

With the arrival of the USB 2.0 specification and its 480Mb/sec transfer rate (40 times faster than USB 1.0), high-speed peripherals such as hard drives, CD-RW drives and so on are viable alternatives to adding another ...

This article started life as a review of Plextor's PlexWriter 40/12/40U external CD-R/RW drive, but no sooner had we finished playing with that than Plextor announced an even faster model, the PlexWriter 48/24/48U. The differences between ...

Usually, stand-alone CD duplicators are rather large devices, using desktop-size 5.25-inch CD-ROM and CD-RW drives with a hefty mains power adapter built in. Teac's approach with this new duplicator is rather different. As you might expect ...

Some external CD-RW drives are portable, but this one definitely isn't. It's a conventional 5.25-inch ATAPI CD-RW drive contained within a robust metal and rubber case. But what makes it particularly interesting is that it connects ...

The Odixion Uno Premium DigiCopier is a stand-alone CD copier. It consists of a 16-speed BURN-proof CD-RW drive and a Plextor UltraPlex 40-speed CD-ROM drive, housed in a metal case that has an LCD display and ...

You'd have thought that if CD-RW drives got any faster they'd take off, or at least become so noisy that it would be impossible to use them without earplugs. But manufacturers such as Plextor continue to ...

Teac's new portable USB 2.0 CD-RW drive is one of the slimmest and lightest drives that we've seen; its dimensions aren't much greater than those of a standard CD jewel case. The USB 2.0 specification means ...

CD-RW drives are getting more common as their prices drop and more people realise how useful they are. With a single drive you can produce permanent and rewritable back-ups and copies of work. Although the capacity ...

Amacom is a company that likes playing around with removable storage; witness the Flipdisk gadget. The Baby CDRW is based on the same idea - removable storage with various different interfaces - but as the name ...

Of the two drives, it's this one that's likely to find its way into desktop machines, particularly at home. This is because it uses the IDE interface, while the Mirai drive uses SCSI instead. The use ...

As you can see, this drive is a bit more expensive than the Plextor unit, and the main reason for this is the type of interface used. Where the Plextor uses IDE, this Mirai unit has ...

CD recording is now so commonplace and accessible that even your boss is probably ripping off PlayStation games in his/her office on a daily basis. But there are legal uses for the technology, too, such as ...

CD-R drives are now available at cheap-'n'-cheerful prices, particularly drives with EIDE interfaces that don't require SCSI adapters. But such drives are not exactly swift. They're fine for the occasional user who wants to make backups ...

Creating CDROMs and audio CDs is a tedious and often wasteful process. Even with a supposedly perfect setup, it is still possible to make mistakes, turning a fresh, new, blank CD into a useless piece of ...