>Hello all...
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>I realize this may not be an appropiate message for this forum, but i want to get some opinions from the people i have come to trust for their advice, so here goes!
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>I am currently shooping for a Cd-R or Cd-RW drive.
>There are so many makes , styles and types out there, would anyone who currently uses one please advise me?
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>I am interested in quality, price ;) , compatibility with all other cdroms as far as reading goes, EIDE Vs. SCSI, ( also can one run a reg EIDE CDRom with another EIDE CD-Rx??).
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>some models I am currently looking at are:
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>ACER model CDW 6206A
>Phillips model CDD 3610
>Memorex (Memtek) model CRW-1622
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>If anyone has one of these, please advise if you are satisfied.
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>Also, any other makes, models that you might recommend and why.
>and if you have a favorite on-line retailer, please recommend.
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>MTIA,
>
>Dan

I just bought 2 HP 8100i a few weeks ago and they are great, not only the drives, but the whole package: it comes with a good deal of software that's all I need to make my copies or backups. I've reread my tape backups and put what was worth on CD.

My only problem till now is that I still have a few Colorado 250 tapes that were written with PC-Tools 6 or 7. I still have the disks and located an old colorado drive. But I need to find a computer old enough to support the PC-tools software and retrieve my data...

José