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Choosing the best optical drives – DVD, CD writers and Blu-ray: ITReviews.com Buyer’s Guide
While some of the latest ultra-portable laptops dispense with any optical drive, a device that can read – and in may case, write – to optical discs including CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-RW and Blu-ray is still a useful component, enabling users to rent the latest movie releases, as well as providing an easy way to install…
Lite-On eNAU608 external DVD writer
Adding a DVD rewriter to a PC that doesn’t have one, whether it’s a netbook, laptop or older desktop, is no longer an expensive business. This little drive from Lite-On has an RRP of £51, but we were able to find it for around £30. It’s a small, glossy black device with a single mini-USB…
Plextor PX-L611U
Plextor has a solid reputation for CD/DVD writers, Blu-ray drives and portable HDD – but while much of the industry is loading the dice in favour of recordable Blu-ray, Plextor still sees a role for slim. lightweight external DVD writers like the PX-L611U. Measuring just 137mm square, a slender 22mm thick and weighing a featherlight…
Appsmaker DataRescuePro
Ever accidentally deleted a file? DataRescuePro can help. This easy-to-use app takes the complex task of data recovery and wraps it up in a few consumer-friendly steps. From hard disks to memory cardsDesigned to work on any type of disk that’s been formatted using either the NTFS or FAT filing systems – including the memory…
Serif – Craft Artist Platinum
The latest version of Serif’s all-singing, all-dancing craft program comes complete with four CDs’ worth of templates and content, themed as weddings, general greeting cards, baby photos and scrapbooks. This gives you all you need to create thousands of unusual projects that go way beyond cards, invitations and posters and allows you to design scrapbooks,…
Samsung – ML-1865
Samsung has been making TVs and smartphones for years – and in its Korean heartland, the company even makes cars – but the speed at which the company has swarmed the printer market in recent times has been breathtaking. There’s now a Samsung printer to match almost every conceivable niche. Its latest is aimed at…
Paragon – Volume Snapshot For Mac OS X
There are a number of programs you can use to perform a full system backup on a Windows PC. If you have a Mac running OS X, there are precious few. Time Machine performs file-by-file backup, but if you want the equivalent of Norton Ghost or Acronis TrueImage, there’s just the one choice. Backing upParagon’s…
Sony – BDX-S500U
If there’s one thing that strikes you immediately about Sony’s BDX-S500U external USB Blu-ray DVD drive, it’s the fact that it’s tiny. Measuring a mere 147x137x19mm (wdh). That’s the same size as two CDs in their jewel cases, stacked one on top of another. We’re talking about an impressively small piece of hardware. So compact…