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Nearly everything has gone rewritable nowadays, turning DVDs themselves into massive, inexpensive storage devices. Whether you want to copy an existing movie or burn several gigs of data yourself, it's important to find a drive whose features match your needs. After all, the last thing you want is for each home movie to eat up hours of your time as you wrestle with glacial read/write speeds.
It may not surprise you to learn that the CD-R and DVD-R drives have grown progressively faster over the years, and today it's not unusual to find write speeds in excess of 48x. This number, which refers the multiple of original playback speed you get for burning and reading, is the most important benchmark when considering hardware such as this. You may also want to look for dual layer capacity for DVD drives, as they effectively double the amount of data you can use.
Most major computer manufacturers let you bundle such drives with your original purchase, though its easy to upgrade if you know what you're doing. Look around SortPrice.com for CD/DVD drives that come with everything you need, including intuitive software packages.
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