Dvd-r Dvd-rw?

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I found this online and was wondering if it is an extremely good deal or if the drive is a piece of crap:

OfficeMax.com - Cendyne DVD-R/DVD-RW $270 after rebate
(thanks, InfoMan)

Cendyne 2x4x8x24 internal DVD-R/DVD-RW computer drive on sale this week for $350. Click the above link to activate a $30 off coupon, then search for item 20146496. Purchase price $320 with free shipping, and a $50 mail-in rebate is available. And, you get a free CD Player with speakers with this deal, if you submit a second mail-in rebate form. This deal is available online, or can be done in-store if you have a $30 off $150 in-store coupon.

According to the drive specs, this drive will write DVD-R media at 2x and will write DVD-RW media at 1x. Cendyne does not manufacture their own drives, so this drive is most likely manufactured by a third-party. DVD-R and DVD-RW media can be read in a lot of DVD Players on the market.
 
If you need to share data with other people, this is not the time to go with DVD burners.

There are currently too many standards (DVD-R,DVD-RW,DVD+RW,DVD-RAM). There is no definite consensus which one will dominate in the future other.

I'd save my money and wait a couple more years until all debates on a standard come to an end.
 
no i have CD Burners and Dat recorders for sharing. Just thinking of another sotrage medium.
 
But if you are sharing data, doesn't this drive also write to cd's? Is it CD-R CD-RW? Most dvd writable drives I've seen also are cd writable drives as well.
 
DaveM said:
But if you are sharing data, doesn't this drive also write to cd's? Is it CD-R CD-RW? Most dvd writable drives I've seen also are cd writable drives as well.
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That kinda defeats the whole purpose though.

CD-R 700 Mb capacity
DVD-r 4.7Gb capacity
 
What brzilian said.

Too many standards. If you have $270 cash to spare, send me a GeForce4 card. I'll pm you my address :).

Actually, you can use the medium for backup, but trying to play DVDs on commercial DVD players may be asking for too much.

And yes, most DVD-RW drives should be able to write on to CD-R/RW. May not be explicitly specified but it should do.
 
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