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  The Plextor PX-712SA is a DVD/CD-R/RW drive. Plextor began designing and producing CD-R/RW drives in 1993 and its DVD+R/RW drive was first introduced in 2003. Plextor produces a wide range of other items as well; however, its main expertise and focus remains on CD/DVD drives. As a DVD/CD-R/RW drive, this product reads, writes and re-writes both DVDs and CDs.
  
  

Speed

• The PX-712SA drive offers a maximum DVD+R speed of 12X and a maximum DVD-R speed of 8X. Theoretically, it could write a 4.7GB DVD in just over 4.5 minutes. This speed makes the Plextor PX-712SA a good choice for those individuals looking for a very fast writer.
  
  

Accompanying Software

• The Plextor PX-712SA was sold with an accompanying CD containing a variety of software programs. Ahead Nero, InCD, Nero BackITUp, Pinnacle Studio, Power DVD and PlexTools Professional were all included with this drive, to provide users a variety of tools to meet all their writing and rewriting needs.
  
  BackItUp software allows the user to perform backups of the hard drive, as needed or regularly recurring. Complete backups, incremental backups, differential backups and storage updates are all supported by this software. Individual files and entire hard drive sections can be backed up and saved onto CDs or DVDs.
  
  Pinnacle Studio 9 SE enables the user to produce professional quality videos on their own PCs.
  
  PlexTools Professional allows the user to control drive functions, identification, CD information, digital audio extraction, CD copying and other operations via an easy-to-use interface.
  
  

Appearance

• The Plextor PX-712SA is white with black trimming and a black tray.
  
  

Various

• The PX-712SA drive has the ability to recognize almost all reading and writing formats, except for DVD-RAM.
  
  This drive also features SilentMode, which enables the user to reduce the noise created by writing discs. This feature does slow the drive speed.