Cebit 2002 - CyberDrive

CyberDrive, had a few suprises presenting some new drives. An internal 40x/16x/48x CD-RW (yes you read it correctly 16x re-writing) that is planned to ship around June. The drive displayed in CeBIT, was mentioned as a 12x re-writer, but shortly after the show finishes, CyberDrive will announce the 16x re-writing speed.

To obtain such a high re-writing speed, new RW media must be used with different organic structure. Ritek will be ready by June to offer such media. Probably other media manufacturers will follow up shortly. It is not yet known if the new 16x RW media will be compatible to the existing CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drives or not...

CyberDrive is also the first manufacturer that uses VIA chipsets for optical storage drives. Their latest 52x CD-ROM version is based upon VIA chipset, and as we heard VIA also plans to ship chipsets for CD-RW drives. Lastly, CyberDrive is a member of DVD+RW alliance so probably next year a DVD+R/RW drive will be released.

PS. CyberDrive said that a new firmware will offer SD2 compatibility for the 32x CD-RW drive :-)

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