Iomega launches internal CD-RW drive

NEW DELHI: Iomega Corporation, a global company dealing in reliable, portable

data storage, has announced the availability of its fastest internal CD-RW drive

to date, the 40x12x40 internal CD-RW drive in India.

With a 40x record and 12x write speed, this internal CD-RW drive boasts

higher-speed and breakthrough performance that further reduces CD-RW times.

Users can now burn a 60min CD Audio in less than three minutes. Excellent

Digital Audio Extraction (DAE) speed of 40x with Buffer UnderRuN Technology also

eliminates wasted CDs and CD coasters. The new 40x12x40 internal CD-RW drive

will be available from 15 April at the suggested retail price of Rs. 7,500/-

from all Iomega authorised resellers.

As with its predecessor 32x10x40 internal drive, the new drive also

incorporates overburn technology, which enables liberating as much as 870MB from

a standard CD-R for up to 99 minutes of recording.

"Iomega's new 40x12x40 internal CD-RW drive is now one of the fastest in

internal CD-RW range and we will continue to deliver top quality drives for the

market," said Richard Lim, regional director, Iomega Asia Pacific.

"The speed and performance of the new 40x12x40 drive has been our response

to customer demand for faster and better drives."

Other key features of the product include:

- Supremely fast 40x DAE (Digital Audio Extraction) speed (the rate at which

a drive can "rip" an audio recording from CD), which allows users to

record a 60-minute CD in less than three minutes

- Support for VCD data extraction

- Buffer UnderRuN protection that prevents the inadvertent destruction of

blank CDs during CD-R sessions. This happens when the host computer cannot

maintain a steady

stream of data to the drive and typically renders the disk useless.

- Overburn technology which enables liberating as much as 870MB from a

standard CD-R for up to 99 minutes of recording.

- A software suite that includes the industry-leading titles needed to burn

CDs with ease - Nero Burning Rom 5.5, which allows VCD creation and supports

advanced CD Copy Options, an easy to use InCD packet writing software which

allows the use of the CD-RW drive as a floppy disk and a Nero? Media Player.