Cebit 2002 - ASUS

ASUS in CeBIT 2002 presented new ATAPI CD-RW drives of 40x and 48x recording speeds. The CRW4012A has average recording speed of 30.36X with firmware v0.6 as the following Nero CD Speed picture shows.

The ASUS CRW4012A has 2MB of buffer, supports Overburn and includes FlextraLink/FlextraSpeed recording technologies:

Here is how the drive looks like:

And last here are the specifications:

ASUS also presented another 48x recorder with the codename CRW-4812A. It suppots 48x writing, 12x re-writing and 48x reading. All the rest features are the same as with CRW4012A:

Below is the most interesting drive from ASUS. An external DVD/CD-RW combo drive with two interfaces USB 2.0/FireWire, capable of 16x writing, 8x re-writing, 24x reading (CD) and 8x reading (DVD). At the following picture we see the right side of the drive:

There is the possibility this drive to include MP3 playback capabilities but ASUS people wasn't so sure about it...

Last, ASUS presented an external 40x USB2.0/FireWire, based upon the internal CRW-4012A: