[pchelpers] Purchasing external CD-RW

I need an external device on which I could use to 
access my files and also store backups. My 
laptop currently has less than 10 megs of space 
less, hence the need for additional media.

I've been looking at external CD-RW drives as a 
solution to this problem and found that wanted an 
opinion on a sale Tiger Direct is having on a CD-
RW for $50 which has the following specs:

CD-Rewritable Drive 40x12x40 with Nero 5.5
CD Creation Software!
Read/Write Speed Write:17X/40X (CAV read 
only)
Rewrite: 12X;     Read: 40X
Burst :
- 16.6 MB/sec (PIO Mode 4/DMA Mode 2)
- 33.3 MB/sec (UDMA Mode 2)
Access Time: 120ms Random Average
Buffer: 4MB Buffer Underrun Prevention (BURN-
Proof)

Is this a decent machine and deal. Any thoughts 
would be much appreciated.

Thanks

gil
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