Submitted by: arnesr
Source: http://www.pcextremist.com/
Samsung Introduces COMBO CD-R/CD-RW/DVD Drive |
Samsung certainly seems to be busy, the company has
announced the introduction of a Combo drive, like the Toshiba and Ricoh drives announced recently (both now shipping) that combines CD-R/CD-RW rewritable technology with DVD technology.
Officially called the COMBO (SM-304) , the drive provides 4X CD-Recording, 4X CD-ReWritable, 24X CD-ROM reading and 4X DVD-ROM reading speeds in a single drive. The drive sports 120ms DVD and 110ms CD average access times, a 2MB cache buffer, EIDE/ATAPI interface and relies on Adaptec's Easy CD Creator and Direct CD software for recording/rewritable chores. It also included is cyberlink's PowerDVD software for DVD movie decoding. The retail bundle will be priced at $349 and begins shipping May 1st, 2000.
