Hitachi GD 8000 (GD-8000) Internal DVD Drive Recommendations

The GD-8000 appeals to a growing market of home and corporate PC users who require high capacity, flexible storage solutions. The drive extends the performance barrier for DVD-ROM drives with 16x DVD, 40x CD-ROM speed data transfer rate. The GD-8000 enables users to play full-length feature films and access a new range of data intensive games and multimedia titles offered on the DVD format. By using software to change the recording format, the GD-8000 can be made read compatible with media recorded by DVD camcorder. The drive offers high performance and reliability with a low initial investment. The GD-8000 is also cost-effective to run with a favorable cost per megabyte ratio to other optical technologies.