Recommendation for external DVD writer Please

[daffy654]

My DVDRW drive will not burn discs any longer so i'm looking to buy an external DVDRW,does anyone have any recommendations.
Specs required: must be able to burn all RW media discs,Lightscribe preferred,fast write speed, security/password protected,USB 2.0,price up to £50.00.
Thanks in advance.

[ChuckFickens]

You use lightscribe, wow there can't be too many people that actually use that!

anyhow not sure what you mean about security/password protected!

http://www.amazon.co....id=1260366353&sr=8-16

or for an extra 50P you can get the same drive at PC world

http://www.pcworld.co...ge=Product&sku=987731

(I've not personally used it, but I've purchased one for somebody else and they have never complained or sent it back :))

[ChuckFickens]

BTW I assume it's a laptop (otherwise I'd assume you'd just replace the internal drive)

for a laptop I personally would be tempted to buy a slimline usb DVD recorder, take the drive out the caddy and replace the internal drive on the laptop.

http://www.amazon.co....qid=1260366353&sr=8-2

[daffy654]

Thanks Chuck. If you read the full product info on the PC world link it may explain better what I meant by password protection,I probably worded it wrong before :-)
I had looked at that one but don't know anyone that uses one so thought i'd ask here.

[daffy654]

Its for my desktop actually Chuck,I don't want to fit an internal one to this system as it seems to be on it's way out :-(

[ChuckFickens]

oh right, the password is protected is to do with the software, nothing to do with the hardware, if you have software that currently lets you password protect the data when you burn it then that should still work the same with a new drive.

Hmmm, tricky one about the computer being on it's way out. as it's possible to buy internal drives for about £15 I would still be tempted to replace the internal drive and then remove it and just keep the drive as a spare if the computer does die.