PC Stats has posted a Samsung SM348 48X/24X/16X CDRW-DVD review
Optical drives are an old technology, but still constitute one of the pillars of ever computer system. A combo drive as the industry terms them, are a combination of a CD-R/RW burner with a DVD-ROM. The Samsung SM348 is a combo drive which boasts the following read and burn speeds for the four essential optical media platforms. The 24X CD-RW rewrite speed threw us for a bit of a loop because we were unable to find any CD-RW recordable media rated above the current "high-speed" of 10X to test with in our area. A quick check online shows us that the top speeds for CD-RW media (in Canada at least) looks like this; Maxell (10x), Memorex (10X), TDK (10X), Yamaha (10X), etc. Without an easily accessible supply of CDRW media rated near, or at 24X, this aspect of the Samsung SM-348 isn't really being used - yet. As you'll see, this also puts a bit of a dampener on our CDRW rewrite tests as the results are capped off at 10X.Read more
