What do you need to consider before choosing an external DVD drive?

Monday, April 27th, 2009 at 11:00 am

First, you need to consider how your external DVD drive will be used. This will help you determine what format your drive will support. The more advanced models support various formats such as DVD+R, DVD-R and dual DVD.

You also need to make sure external drive will be compatible with your computer. You can check this by accessing your PC configuration.

Remember that one of the features of an external DVD drive is that it is backward compatible and can play old CD-ROMs, new CD-ROMs, CD-I disks as well as video CDs.

Another thing to consider is burner speed and also how portable you need the device to be.