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05-29-2002, 09:02 AM
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PC Card or USB Disc drive?
Hello,
Just got a new laptop at home, but it did not come with a disc drive of any sort. I'm considering a DVD+RW drive or at least a CD-RW drive, but am unsure whether a PC Card version or USB version will be better in terms of performance/reliability. Also, will either drives(PC Card or USB) be bootable? There are only excess PC card slots and USB 1.0 ports on the notebook. |
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05-29-2002, 09:07 AM
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Get yourself the Microsolutions Triple Play Backpack CDRW. It has USB (upgradable to USB 2.0), PCMCIA, and parallel connections.
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05-29-2002, 09:17 AM
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Thanks Hal, it looks pretty much what i need. One last question though, is it bootable? Like if i need to run the recovery cd for some reason or another...
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05-29-2002, 09:52 AM
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You can also look at the portable PlexWriters.
www.plextor.com Plextor burners are high quality, unfortunately they have only USB2.0 devices, no firewire ones. . . unline the DVD+RW drive manufacturers: For an external DVD+R/+RW drive, I'd say either HP dvd200e (USB 2.0 / Firewire) or Sony DRX-120L (Firewire). There are currently 6 models out there. You can see them here: http://www.dvdplusrw.org/pc/overview_dvdplusr.html RJ Last edited by RJ; 05-29-2002 at 10:43 AM. |
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05-29-2002, 10:39 AM
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Unfortunately, my notebook only has USB 1 ports and a PC card slot... so they all don't apply..
Looks like i'll be looking at the PC card drives.. |
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