More information on ASUS' new 24x drive

Recently we reported that ASUS will bring us a 24 speed CD-RW drive, Seb mailed us with more information on this drive.

The drive can, as said, write at 24 speed, rewrite at 10 speed and read at 40 speed and uses Burnproof as buffer underrun protection.


Yesterday ASUS announced a 24x CD-Writer based on mechanic SANYO CRD-BP1500P.

It supports all latest technologies developed by SANYO : Zone-CLV, BURN-Proof and FexSS-BP.

Features:

  • Multi-function Max. 24X Write/ 10X Rewrite/ 40X (CAV) ReadUltra-Fast writing/ rewriting speed: burn a full 650 MB CD within 4 minutes
  • Zone-CLV (Constant Linear Velocity) Recording Strategy
  • FlexSS-BP (Flexible Speed & Flexible Strategy) Writing Speed/ Quality control Technology
  • BURN-Proof TM Buffer Under-run Error Prevention/ anti-coaster Technology
  • Enhanced IDE (ATAPI Pio Mode 4) connector on PC motherboard
  • Orange Book Part II (CD-R) and Part III (CD-RW) compliance
  • Fast Random Access Time: 130 ms
  • Free latest bundle software (Ahead Nero(r)) for multi-task CD-ROM burning, editing, etc.
  • Low Noise under operation
  • Large 2MB Internal Buffer
  • Half-height PC Built-in Type
  • O/S compatibility: MS-DOS, Windows 95/ 98/ 2000/ NT/ Me

    Source: Blue Hardware.com

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