Teac CDW54E

I own a Que! USB CDRW. Its main component is the Teac CD-W54E, which would normally be a good bit of kit, so they say, had it not been used in conjunction with USB. Incase you don't know much about USB , it stands for Universal Serial Bus, it was created by Apple and I am sad to say it is very slow. I was going to buy a Predator drive but the salesman on the phone said the QUE! drive was better, and he didn't have any Predator drives in stock anyway. My CDRW will only burn at 2 times normal CD speed and not the measly 4 times it says on the case. Sometimes it used to crash, saying "buffer under run", or some other useless remark similar to what ...  Read the complete review

Sometimes it's great not being the leader. The Teac CD-W54E is far from being the hottest thing in CD rewriters. But what it concedes in speed and features it makes up in other ways. Lets consider what it offers. OK, it's a 4*4*32 rewriter, so it can read CDs at a nominal (very nominal, as with just about every CD drive on the market) 32 times the base speed of 150 KB/s. It can write CDRs and CDRWs at 4 times 150 KB/s. It plugs into a regular ATAPI channel and supports DMA access under Windows 98 and Windows 2000. And what's missing: No BURN-proof technology. So if your PC can't keep its record buffer filled with ...  Read the complete review