We’ve progressed a long way in storage and media technology from the first personal computers. The first computer I ever used was a Atari X800XL using a tape drive for storage, and with a grand total of 32KB of memory. Man that was a long time ago. We’ve progressed to computers with multi-gigahertz computers with massive hard disk drives and DVD drives that can store gigabytes of data.

Gigabyte is one of the biggest manufacturers of motherboards and video cards in the world today. I prefer their products over some competitors for their performance, quality and features. Gigabyte also makes other products including motherboards, mini systems, LCD monitors, DVD drives, barebones computers and various other computer components.

My first DVD drive was a Creative Labs Encore 2nd generation DVD drive a few years ago. Since then, I’ve progressed to a 4X DVD-ROM, a 16X DVD-ROM, a 4X DVD+RW, up to my current DVD 8X +/- RW drive and a 16X DVD drive to play back movies. The product I’m reviewing today is their GIGABYTE DVD Dual GO W1616A DVD +/- RW drive. So let’s see what the product is all about.