The first 40-speed CD burner on the market, the Plextor 40x12x40, offers some of the faster drive times around.

Plextor are well known for producing some of the highest quality CD drives, and has been doing for many years. This know-how gave them the edge being first to market with a 40-speed CD writer, but this isnt the only new feature to make it into the drive. Plextor claim the new black tray used by the drive reduces errors while burning, and new drive electronics aim to improve burning..

If youre after the fastest writing times then the BenQ 40x12x48 speed CD-RW drive will see you right.

Dont expect a CD drive to get much faster than this. Though 40x speed writable drives are upon us, physically spinning a CD at these speeds is a difficult job for a drive to perform, so you tend to find many of the possible performance increases do start to diminish. This particular drive supports one of the highest read speeds for a CD-RW drive hitting 48x. It can also take full advantage o..

What can you really say about this product. Its a cable. Its grey. It has a fine quality connector at either end.

Aesthetically this is probably the most beautiful looking cable Ive ever seen. If I was a collector of cables this would be one of the better ones in my cable display cabinet.

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