We test CD-ROM read performance with Testa Labs' CD-Tach 98 2.0 software, and we gauge CD-R performance by writing 430MB of data to CD-R twice: once from an image file and once on the fly.

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He downloaded the data onto a CD, which he brought to work in order, purportedly, to listen to music by Lady Gaga.

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The trade in such contraband goes back to 2006, when the first CD with data about German accounts showed up.

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It's a CD on which data can be more tightly packed.

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You could protect the data on some physical medium, like a CD or magnetic tape.

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The drive will include packet writing software for CD-RW and Cequadrat JustBurn for creating data and audio CDs.

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Some existing CD-RW drives require that the whole CD-RW disc be erased before new data can be written to it.

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That was also before CD drives that can record or "burn" data for a fraction of the price of Zip disks became prevalent.

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If you don't have 1 GB of hard drive space for Descent 3, you'll need a CD-ROM to play the movies (and to access data files on a bare minimum install).

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The MapSource City Select CD-ROM comes standard so you can download detailed street-level map data, look up more than five million points of interest or just navigate to an address in the United States or Canada.

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