Published on 07/27/2006
IO Data has introduced an external DVD burner than plans on being different from the rest of the crowd as it is completely bus powered. This comes with a price, and the cost you pay are lower burn speeds. Other than that, this external DVD burner supports dual layer burning and its very own disc labeling technology called Lableflash. Burn speeds for DVD+R/RW DL disks and DVD-R/RW/DL are at 2x when bus powered, while using an AC adapter will bump up the burn speeds of DVD+-R DL to 4x, DVD+-R and DVD+RW 8x, and DVD-RW to 6x.