By Kire Terzievski, RMIT Test Labs
June 18th, 2002.
What to look for when buying a DVD burner
- What sort of data will you be recording? If you're only going to be archiving, a DVD-RAM will suit best.
- If you're planning on transferring video to DVD, you may want to consider a DVD-R drive. At present a DVD-R disc is more likely to be read by consumer DVD players.
- Will you also be burning onto CDs? Look at the CD-R and CD-RW speeds supported.
- Are you likely to want to move the drive from one computer to another? External drives are slower, but are more flexible.
- Check out what software is offered as well as the number of media bundled with the drive.
- Since the price of media is falling, the price of the drive should be a big factor.
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