This is the fastest IDE DVD writer we’ve reviewed so far. It reads DVDs at
12X and records on DVD+R media and DVD-R at 8X and 4X respectively. It re-writes
DVD+RW at 4X and DVD-RW at 2X. Also it writes CDs at 40X and CDRWs at 24X.
All the DVD writing tests have been done on 4X DVD-R, however, that time +R as
8X DVD wasn’t available in the market. Moreover, 4.3 GB data was also burnt on
DVD+R media at 4X that took 14 mins 44 secs, which is quite good. Following
this, the same test was done on the same 4X media, but at 8X, and it took just 9
mins 21 secs.
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Though, this may not always work, since you’re burning at a faster rate
than the media is rated at. In the tests performed, it burnt without any
problems. Surprisingly, it only took 33 secs to format a DVD+RW in CD-6 and 24
mins to copy 4.3 GB of data on it, both are very good timings.
Coming to the CD tests, the drive took 3 mins to burn 650 MB of data on 48X
CD-R and same time to create an audio CD from 74 mins of audio. It took 3 mins
to do CD duplication and 6 mins for audio CD duplication.
The drive comes with PowerDVD and SONIC MyDVD software. Overall it’s a very
good buy, considering the speed.