Advice and Deals on CD Burner Drives

A CD burner, also known as a CD-R or CD-RW drive, has many uses. You can use it to backup your programs, create custom music CDs, make a photo album, or store video clips. If nothing else, you can just use it as a regular CD-ROM drive to play music CDs or install programs.

CD burner technology has really advanced since the first generation drives. You use to have to keep running programs to a minimum when burning a CD or risk causing a buffer underrun and ruining the CD. Now buffer underruns are a thing of the past. Today's CD burners are equipped with various buffer underrun protection schemes. With this new technology, you can do so much more while burning a CD and not worry about a buffer underrun. Of course with the incredibly fast burning speeds, the burn would finish before you could do much multi-tasking.

There are some really good deals out there right now for CD burners. With the rebates available, you can get a CD burner for the price of a DVD-ROM or CD-ROM drive. My advice is to go with a CD-RW drive over a CD/DVD-ROM drive while the deals are still hot.