"...Creative Technology introduced its high performance drive solution, the CD-RW Blaster 161040, which ships this week at an estimated street price of US$129. The CD-RW Blaster 161040 writes CD-Rs at 16X and CD-RWs at 10X and comes bundled with the user-friendly NTI CD-Maker 2000 Plus software enabling anyone including first time users to create CDs within minutes for both sharing and storage.

Buffer Underrun Technology Minimizes Errors and Enables Multi-tasking The CD-RW Blaster 161040 drive features buffer underrun protection technology which minimizes disc creation failure while allowing the user to multi-task at the PC during the data recording process. This dual benefit saves the user both time and money and with no PC down time during the burning process, is a boon to productivity..." NULL