Price Guide, December 2005: Storage
by Haider Farhan on December 17, 2005 2:31 PM EST- Posted in
- Guides
DVDR
Concluding this month's storage guide are the DVDR drives. DVD burners are an excellent way to back-up any data or movies you may have. Doing so will not only free up your precious hard drive space, but it will allow you to easily transport large files from system to system and also enabling you to create a complete back-up of your particular OS on only a minimum number of DVD-R(W)'s.
There are a number of great drives to choose from, making only one suggestion is near impossible especially with these competitive prices.
The Hewlett-Packard 16X DVD640I [RTPE: Q6766A] is one of those few drives featuring HP's signature LightScribe technology. You can find this drive going for approximately $80.
For some cheaper (although not performance-wise) alternatives, the NEC 16X ND-3540A [RTPE: ND-3540A] is on sale for about $48 and the Pioneer 16X DVR-110D [RTPE: DVR-110] is on sale for $44 shipped. The BenQ DW1640 [RTPE: DW1640] is still the drive to have this month and at the moment, is going for about $58.
By the way, we are expecting NEC to debut its new DVDR with LightScribe early next year at CES, which will be covered by our very own Kristopher Kubicki.
This concludes this week's price guide, check back next week for another edition of our price guides as we will be covering the latest trend in CPU pricing. Thanks for reading!