"..Hitachi America today named Microboards Technology as a North American distributor for the GF-1000 Series DVD-RAM drive. Microboards Technology will carry Hitachi's standard rewritable DVD drives as part of its comprehensive portfolio of optical storage solutions.

GF-1000 Series products are DVD Forum standard format drives, providing fully rewritable, removable storage on optical disc media with capacity of 2.6 GB per side (5.2 GB total with dual-sided media), and fast data transfer rates of up to 1.38 Megabytes (MB) per second. The drives also feature full read compatibility for all types of industry standard pre-recorded and recordable media including DVD-ROM, DVD-R, CD-ROM, CD-R/RW, PhotoCD and Audio and Video CD..'' NULL