Thanks to Conductor we know that Plextor Japan has announced a new external CD-RW recorder, the PlexWriter PX-W5224TU. As the model number suggests, the external USB 2.0 drive is based on the internal PlexWriter PX-W5224TA drive and it thus has the same specifications: 52x write, 24x re-write and 40x read speeds (52x read speeds can be unlocked though). The drive will have a 2MB buffer and will of course have support for BURN-Proof. Here's part of the Japanese announcement, translated by Altavista's Babel Fish (so please don't mind the spelling!):
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Then, from at the time of CD-R drive appearance, to utilize the know-how of our company which exhausts all power to development of the product which always actualizes the highest efficiency, for the entry user way this each time we planned "PLEXWRITER 52/24/52U" as a completion shape of CD-R/RW drive. The knitting machine simplicity securely, actualizes the CD compilation of the entry grade which you can feel at rest, adds and it is the product which also request cheapness pursues.
As for DVD being still unnecessary, it is sufficiently distant with the CD media user like thought, when examination it receives the purchase of CD-R/RW drive anew, as for quality e.g., you designate the compilation of music CD as purpose, we have become the product which, satisfaction it can receive of course sufficiently even in the aspect of price. |
According to the announcement the PlexWriter PX-W5224TU drive will ship in March of this year for a suggested retail price of 10,000 Yen (which is about US$ 95). Please use our Plextor Forum to discuss this new
drive.
Source: Plextor Japan
