Plextor is the most reliable.
It is also the most expensive, and it is hard to find.
Go to
www.accelerateYourMac.com
and read the reader reports on drives.
My experience with Lite-On was very bad, therefore i recommend against that brand.
Remember that USB CDRW can only write at slow speeds. (About 2X for rewriteable.)
Avoid CaliforniaDrives, bad trouble returning a drive that does not work.
As you read thru the reports re: Plextor at
www.accelerateYourMac.com
you will find references to vendors of the plextor.
Also, go to
http://www.pricewatch.com
Search for Plextor at pricewatch, and it will help you find a USB plextor drive.
Because you are using USB, the Plextor can be one od the slow ones -- 4x or 8x
is plenty fast enuff.
Donna wrote:
> Now that I'm getting into digital art and
> photography, I need more storage capacity.
> A
> CD-Rewritable seems to be the best way for me.
> Any recommendations or comments about particular brands? the LaCie
> is an affordable price -- Is it a good product? (I would want an
> external USB model.) Also, there seem to be two kinds of the Lacie
> CD-RW Firwire and USB or USB and SCSI. Is there any difference
> in the quality of the two types?
>
> If you don't recommend LaCie, what brand would you recommend?
> (Recommendations for storage media other than CD are also welcome,
> but I'd like to keep the price of the hardware under $250.)
> Thanks!!
> Donna
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