Plextor to announce PX-W4824A (48/24/48) CD-RW drive!
Tuesday, 30 July 2002

Plextor plans to ship a new CD-RW drive with the codename "CD-R PX-W4824A". The drive supports 48X writing, 24X re-writing, 48X reading, 4MB buffer, BURN-Proof, VariRec and PoweRec technologies as the previous Plextor drives. This would be the first ever Plextor drive that offers 48X writing speed among with CAV recording technology! The drive expected to hit the market around middle of September-early October...
Product specifications:

- Writing speeds: 48X (CAV), 40X (P-CAV), 32X (P-CAV), 24X (P-CAV), 20X (CLV), 16X (CLV), 8X (CLV), 4X (CLV)
- Re-writing speeds: 24X (P-CAV), 16X (CLV), 10X (CLV), 10X (CAV) (MRW only), 4X (CLV)
- Reading speeds: 48X (CAV)
- 4MB Buffer + BURN-Proof
- PoweREC III media detection quality system
- VariREC AudioCD authoring system
- Black Tray to reduce C1C2 errors and improved PCB to reduce Jitter
- Capable of Digital Audio Extraction at 48X (max)
- Supports CD-DA; CD-ROM (Mode 1); CD-ROM (Mixed Mode); CD-ROM XA (Mode 2, Form 1 and Form 2 and Mixed Form; CD-I; Photo CD; Video CD; CD-Extra; CD+G; CD Text
- Supports Disc-at-Once, Track-at-Once, Session-at-Once
- Flash ROM allows for easy upgrade over the Internet
- E-IDE (ATAPI-4) interface (UDMA2)
- Windows 98/2000/ME/XP Compatible

Referance
Sanyo也啟動P-CAV戰線了..擊沉MediaTek吧..