cd-rom vs dvd rom

[AphxA1]

What is a better disc drive to buy for a pc?

cd-rom or dvd-rom

Also, what speed?

 

[morgandee]

cd-rom

it'll prevent your computer from being able to read those vile dvd formats as they are filled to the brim with evil !

 

[His Divine Shadow]

roffle @ ori

DVD drives have an advantage over CD drives that instantly makes them the best: they can nearly always real all or most CD types out there as well as several DVD types. In short, with CD-ROM, you are limited to CDs, but with DVD-ROM, you get both CDs and DVDs.

Speed, unless you mean recording/writing speed, doesn't matter in any drive. SImply get the fastest that you can get, the drive will adjust to the best setting for what you put in it.

 

[Goodieluver]

depends, what do you have more use for

cdrom for mainly data saving or a dvdrom for reading movies and also for larger data storage

Id suggest lookin for a dvd burner\reader. It will also work as a cd rom

 

[Celtic_Emperor]

Don't most newer computers come with a combo drive that has both? My laptop does. Its also CD-RW, etc inabled. The desktop I used to have also had both so I'm certain both have them thesedays.

 

[Kalamos]

A DVD burner.
And a backup DVD reader [if they still sell them] or a CD reader for progs with nasty protection protocols.

 

[MistressValerie1]

I would strongly recommend a DVD burner over any other type of drive because of its far greater data storage capacity and its ability to read most optical disks.

 

[Kalamos]

And a DVD Rom too... if you can spare the money.

[I'd rather skip lunch than go without backup hds...]

 

[AphxA1]

oh im just going to use it for gaming. trying to configure a new pc. Yeah i was refering to the speed of the drive itself. On the list of configurations it says "16x dvd drive or a 48x cd-rom". Thanks guys on the advise. Im not really into burning cd as kazaa is spyware hell. So I guess I can skip on the cd burner.

 

[Kalamos]

Nope, you can't skip on burning capabilities.
Even if you shun Kazaa. 😉

[And even then, there is Kazaa Lite, out there, I heard...]

 

[nessonite1]

Kazaa Lite all the way, baby!
If you're getting a drive for gaming you'll want a DVD as the better games are going to be on that format.

 

[MistressValerie1]

I use a burner for data backup only and have been very glad on many occasions to have had those backup CDs 🙂

 

[somebody231]

DVD-drive that can burn and read DVDs and CDs... I mean:
One drive to rule them all. If you'll get both in one. The only downside is that it costs a bit. Have one myself.

 

[Kalamos]

A costly alternative to burning to cd is using older HDs.
It's something I had to do myself.

 

[nessonite1]

I recently bought a dvd-r. it wasn't the cheapest out there but it was only $60 and with it I can burn cds, any type of DVDs, double layer DVDs, read CDs, and read DVDs. it's not a huge expense for something that can do everything.

 

[Janus4385]

oh im just going to use it for gaming. trying to configure a new pc. Yeah i was refering to the speed of the drive itself. On the list of configurations it says "16x dvd drive or a 48x cd-rom". Thanks guys on the advise. Im not really into burning cd as kazaa is spyware hell. So I guess I can skip on the cd burner.

If you don't trust Kazaa, there is always bittorrent 😀 😀 😀 .........
And even if it is just for gaming, I'd go with the DVD-R, you never know when it might come in handy...
And if you do get the cd-rom, a 48x would be great(and this is the one you say is available so the rest of this paragraph is probably useless, but anyway), a 52x also great, but I'd pass up any 56x cd-rom, I don't know the brand or series they would give you, but some of the 56x drives have presented info skipping problems, BENQ 56x drives had that problem that I know off...

DVD gooooooood......

 

[AphxA1]

Im probably going to go with what ness and celtic said about a combo drive. I guess somewhere down the line Im going to burn dance mix cds.