Buffalo MediaStation 12x External USB 3.0 Blu-ray Writer
An external Blu Ray burner makes it easy for one to backup many gigabytes of data onto removable optical media. The benefit of an external drive is that you can easily move it from one computer to the next, ensuring that you can access your optical media and backup routines on all sorts of different platforms. Which of these great external Blu Ray burners do you like the best?
StarTech.com 1 Port PCI Ultra Wide SCSI Controller Adapter
Toshiba SCSI-UPG UPG SCSI Card for All Surv 8+CH
39160 Dual Channel Ultra160 SCSI Card with 68-Pin External SCSI
Before SATA became the de facto standard, computers used to interface with large, high-speed drives using a SCSI interface. These large, multi-pin interconnects provided significant bandwidth and robust reliability. Because they are phasing out of popularity, you can find large old disc arrays for sale cheap, but then you will need a SCSI card to allow your computer to use them. Which of these SCSI cards would you use?
Hard drives have become faster and bigger while their prices remained reasonable and this is probably why most people can now afford storage capacities that would have been unthinkable a few years ago. For this poll we have chosen only large external hard drives with capacities from 1TB to 2TB, which is the best one?
HP DVD Writer Dvd300e - DVD+RW drive - Hi-Speed USB/IEEE 1394
Samsung SE-S084C - DVD±RW (±R DL) / DVD-RAM drive
PLEXTOR 24X DVD/CD Writer Black SATA Model PX-880SA LightScribe
Iomega SuperSlim DVD Portable Writer - DVD±RW (±R DL)
With modern applications requiring so much disk space, and modern media files getting larger with every passing quarter, it's good to be able to take some of your data off your hard drive by making a backup copy onto a writable DVD. Which of these great DVD writers do you like best for storing data off the computer, in a rewritable optical format?
Hard drives have become faster and bigger while their prices remained reasonable and this is probably why most people can now afford storage capacities that would have been unthinkable a few years ago. For this poll we have chosen only large external hard drives with capacities from 1TB to 2TB, which is the best one?
Rosewill USB 2.0 External DVD Writer Model ROD-EX003-LS
Gear Head 24XDVDINTLS DVD-Writer - Internal Dvd-ram/-r/-rw 24X 6X 16X
LITE-ON USB Black 8X External Top Load DVD/CD Burner Model eTAU208
LaCie Portable DVD±Reader / Writer with USB Interface
Sony optiarc lightscribe DVD burner 24x AD-7241S-bk
Lightscribe is a handy feature that allows some modern DVD writing drives to double as disc labelers, using the data burning laser to etch classy designs on to the front of discs that have been treated with lightscribe's special coating. Which of these combination writing and labeling drives would you most like to connect to your computer for making DVDs with flashy labels?
Hard drives have become faster and bigger while their prices remained reasonable and this is probably why most people can now afford storage capacities that would have been unthinkable a few years ago. For this poll we have chosen only large external hard drives with capacities from 1TB to 2TB, which is the best one?
