Samtack announced that it will begin shipping this 52x24x52x cd-rw drive 3rd week February especially for the channel in Canada and the USA.

Mitsumi has jumped on the bandwagon like many top manufacturers of CDRWs to come up with this lastest offering.

This drive incorporates the world renowned and award winning Nero cd-recording software. Coupled with the current Buffer Underrun Protection Technology, this drive offers fast, reliable burns and optimum performance that make back-up, archiving and storing of data easy.

This Mitsumi CDRW offers 52x write, 24x re-write and 52x read speeds. Has Plug and Play feature and compatible with Win 95/98SE/ME/2000/NT4/XP. This drive is the very ideal device to back up critical and important business or personal data, create and also archive your own music and photography libraries.

Specifications:
Transfer rate read: (CAV) 52x speed: 7,800 KB/sec
Transfer rate write: CD-R 52x speed: 7,800 KB/sec
                            CD-RW 24x sped: 3,600 KB/sec
Buffer size: 2MB Exactlink for buffer underrun proof technology
Random access time: less than 100ms
Host interface: E-IDE/ATAPI
Supported formats: CD-DA, CD-ROM, CD ROM XA, Enhanced CD, photo CD (read only ), CD Text, Video CD
Recording methods: Disk at once, Session at once, Track at once, Multisession, Packet Writing

NOTES TO EDITORS

Samtack Computer Inc. head quartered in Markham, has branches in Montreal and City of Industry ( California ) is a North American distributor since 1989. It distributes portable MP3 digital players, Dual format DVDR/ VD ROMs/CD-RW / CD-ROM drives and upgrade kits, DVD-R/CD-R / CD-RW media, USB card readers and storage devices, hard drives, desktop PCs, notebooks, motherboards,VGA, Sound cards, fax modems, monitors, network cards & hubs, printers and many more computer & internet related products.

It is a member of the international Pine Technology group, a global computer component and internet appliances manufacturer with offices in the US, Canada, UK, Netherlands, Taiwan, Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong and China. Research and Development offices are in Hong Kong, Taiwan and China.

For further sales & distribution information, please contact

Robert Chin
VP Marketing
Samtack
110A Cochrane Drive, Markham L3R 9S1
Tel: 905 940-1880 x 356
e-mail: robert@samtack.com