What's better: A CD-RW or a Syquest Drive

[emac921]

I am upgrading my machine to include a CD-RW drive and an extra parallel port card to use with my external 1 Gig Syquest drive.

All things being equal, which piece will do a better job for me,
for downloads, backups etc.

I don't download music, but do a lot of golf games, FS and the such.

Thoughts please.

 

[~Candy~]

My vote is for the CDRW.....media is less expensive and if you plan on moving files from one computer to another, more people are going to have a CDROM or CDRW than a Syquest Drive....

BTW, didn't they go out of business?