 | Lately, since March 2004, my old HP CD-RW
started giving problems; it had difficulty sensing that a CD-RW disc was
inserted and sometimes couldn't write to it properly. |
| Well, I then realised that the HP was 4˝ years old! No wonder it was
behaving oddly. I guess it was time to send it to the HP
Service Centre in KL. |
| Meanwhile, I decided to buy a new external CD-RW. After a bit of
surfing on the web and window shopping at the local mall, I spotted this
excellent unit : Asus
CRW-5224A-U. |
| It costs only RM265, about 10x cheaper than my older HP! But it has
several advanced features: -
 | 52X Write/24X Rewrite/52X Read |
| High-Speed Interface: USB2.0 |
| FlextraLink™ Buffer Underrun Errors Prevention |
| FlextraSpeed™ Optimal Writing Speed Adjustment |
|
| It is also more compact and lighter than the HP. |
| After installing it to my PC, I tested it and it worked the first
time. Boy, it was fast! I'm very satisfied. |
