Suggestions urgently needed...please

[plucky duck]

Ok, this is wuz up.
I'm building a new computer, as you may know. One of the things I *must* buy is a cdrom drive. Now the problem comes where I have to decide between a cd/DVD drive to work with my Hollywood decoder card or a CDrewritable drive to offload my full-to-the-top 9gig hard drive.

Any recommendations?

I was looking along the lines of a Ricoh 6/4/24x or 4/4/20x IDE for cd-writing or a Pioneer 10x/40x / Creative 5x/32x for plain running cds' and dvds'.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

[Dave2]

Get the CD-RW drive. Most games still run on CD-ROMs these days.

[pickel]

Hey Duck: Just installed a Philips #PCRW 404K
Got it on sale last week. Haven't tryed the rewrite yet, since I had to work all day today, but last night I let my wife get on the headphones and couldn't hardly get her off my computer. The sound is AWESOME. Like you're in the concert hall. No backround noise, clear and natural. Great stereo separation. If it records as good as it plays back, which after reading some dcumentation,
it'll be a real winner. In my "Upgrading and Repairing " book, it said Philips and Sony came up with formats for the CD platform.
gotta be doing something right. Good luck

the pickel

[chipbgt]

IIIII would get a dvd drive and a cd-rw drive, and an ati card that handles dvd decoding..at least thats what I DID do http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

[plucky duck]

I've got an ATI xpert@play, a Matrox G400, and a Hollywood Plus DVD decoder, which can all handle DVD effortlessly.

Since DVD is mostly for movies, as least for now, it does not make a lot of sense getting one. I've never had a cdrewriter before, so I'll give that a try instead as it is more beneficial for both my systems for offloading files to the $2 disc and can free up 2gig space from each of the systems.

The download section of my disks, mostly files from internet, have now reached a capacity of 1gig, incredible isn't it?

I'll go for Ricoh's 4/4/20x drive. Now is there any objections as to why this drive is not worth its money? Anything bad you've heard about this drive?

[welsh wizard]

Go for Cd writer/rewriter first, if you have aspare slot you can always add DVD later,
aparently there are some dvd writers out there but can't get any spec's on them yet. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif
WW