Introduction
There are many reasons why a user opt to purchase an external CD-RW instead of an internal one. For instance, you may like the portabilities offered by an external drive or in the rare case, where you run out of IDE ports on your mainboard (we can bring up PCI expansion cards and such, but that is another story). Today we take a look at the AOpen External USB 2.0 40x12x48x CD-RW drive.
The AOpen package comes with the usual 1x CDRW, 1x CDR, manual and cables.
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This AOpen CD-RW drive is really just an internal AOpen CRW4048 drive housed in a baby blue external USB 2.0 casing. Straight out of the box, we can find the driver and Nero v.5 discs, an 80-minute 12x CD-RW disc, an 80-minute 40x CD-R disc, a USB 2.0 cable, an audio cable, power adapter and a manual. As the name and specifications implies, a USB 2.0 connectivity is required to use this drive. So ensure that either your motherboard supports USB 2.0, or that you have a USB 2.0 PCI card available as the package does not include one.
Check out the specifications shown below :-
AOpen External USB 2.0 40x12x48x Technical Specifications
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| Data Capacity |
- 700MB (80 min. disc)
- 650MB (74 min. disc)
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| Writing Speed (CD-R) |
- 40x (Z-CLV) : 6000 KB/s
- 32x (Z-CLV): 4800 KB/s
- 24x (Z-CLV): 3600 KB/s
- 20x (CLV) : 3000 KB/s
- 16x: 2400 KB/s
- 12x: 1800 KB/s
- 8x: 1200 KB/s
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| Writing Speed (CD-RW) |
- 12x: 1800 KB/s
- 10x: 1500 KB/s
- 4x: 600 KB/s
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| Reading Speed |
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| Access Time |
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| Data Buffer |
- 2MB with JustLink Buffer-Underrun
Protection
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| Writing Methods |
- Disc at Once
- Track at Once
- Session at Once
- Packet Writing
- Multisession
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| Supported Write/Read Formats |
- CD-DA
- CD-ROM
- CD-ROM XA
- PhotoCD
- VideoCD
- Super VideoCD
- CD-I
- CD-Extra
- CD Text
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A "baby blue" look.
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Okay, before we move on, you do know what is USB 2.0 right? For the benefit of those who don't, the original USB 1.1 runs at 12Mbps while the new standard USB 2.0 features a theoretical maximum transfer rate that's forty times faster than USB 1.1 - 480mbps, or 60MB per second.
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