David,
I have experience with a number of different variations. I have a Sony USB
one, but it was an early model. Works fine, but only reliably writes at 1X.
Useful, but slow. I suspect the new ones work better at higher speeds.
My best success has been with a SCSI drive, but if you don't need SCSI for
something else (I have a film scanner too), then it's overkill.
Personally, I'd just buy an inexpensive name-brand IDE drive and put it in
your PC. If you have the spots on your IDE chain (max of 4 things), and an
extra external bay, then definately keep both the CD drive and the CD-RW
drive. You'll end up wanting to copy CD's and it's so much easier with both
drives.
My two cents.
Tom
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Sent: Monday, July 03, 2000 10:21 AM
Subject: [OM] Writeable CD
> We are thinking about getting a writeable CD for our PC. We run Adobe
Photo
> Shop and have a large file of family photos and historic family photos to
> archive.
>
> Any thoughts on what type to get would be appreciated. Can you get one
that
> plugs into USB port, or am I better off to replace the CDROM in the box
with
> the new device? Any ideas would be appreciated.
>
> Dave Dougherty
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