The 12/20PleX, Plextorís 12X-20X SCSI CD-ROM drive, boasts Constant Angular Velocity (CAV) technology, which improves data throughput at the outer rim of the disc. A 512KB buffer saves CPU resources, ...

introduced two 12X CD-ROM drives, the XM-5701B SCSI and the XM-5702B ATAPI. Both feature sustained data transfer rates of 1,800 kbps. Suggested list prices for the XM-5701B SCSI and the XM-5702B ATAPI ...

CDs are great, but they have their limitations. Although they are lightweight and can carry up to 650MB of data, they are still too big to fit in a shirt pocket, and data-transfer rates are slow ...

Most optical drives today are combo CD/DVD drives that support DVDs and all the CD formats: CD audio, CD-ROM, CD-R and CD-RW. The speeds of the drives are rated by their CD-ROM and DVD transfer rates.