Tips On Buying A DVD Drives

Introduction

DVD drives is used with computer to read the information from the DVD-ROM. Today DVD drives have transfer rates ranging of different capacity. Buying a DVD drive is confusing task, because there are many option for this purpose are available in market. Below we have listed important considerations to look at when considering purchasing a DVD drive.

Technology of DVD Drives

Before considering purchasing a DVD drives, it is also good consider the other available options.

CD-R - A CD-writer or recorder (or simply CD-R drive) is used to write data on CD-R disks. Usually, a CD-writer can read information from CD as well as write information on CD, The locally produced CD-R disks are created with CD writer. The speed of these drives is up to 52X or more.

CD-RW - You must have a CD-RW drive to write date on the CD-RW. These drives have read and write speed is up to 52X or more but the re-write speed is 10X or more. The CD-RW drive is advanced and more expensive than CD-R drive. It can write data on both CD-R and CD-RW discs and also read data from them

DVD - DVD stands for Digital Video Disk Versatile Disc. DVD-ROM is an extremely high capacity optical disc with storage capacity from 4.7 GB to 17 GB.

TRANSFER RATES

DVD-ROM is an extremely high capacity optical disc with storage capacity from 4.7 GB to 17 GB. DVD disc is specially use to store movie films. It is also used to store huge database, music, complex software etc.

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS

There are some other important considerations to look at when purchasing a computer DVD drives include:

DVD option: DVD-R, DVD-R DL, DVD+R, DVD+R DL,DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD+RW DL, DVD-RAM.

Warranty: How long is the warranty and what does it cover.

Support : Is the technical support number a free number is it open 24 hours 7 days a week.