A portable CR-RW drive has a CD drive and spindle platform, a chargeable battery power source, at least one docking bay for docking a removable storage medium and a processor supporting firmware for enabling functions of the drive. In a preferred embodiment the drive is, in a portable fashion, used minimally to burn CDs from data stored on the removable storage medium using the battery as a power source and wherein no externally connected device is required to participate in the function of the drive.