BenQ DW1625 with LightScribe review at Hardware Zone

March 11, 2005

eleewhm used our news submit to tell us that the folks over at the Hardware Zone have a BenQ 1625 review up. Here is a nice picture of the drive from that review and a listing of the specs too.

Performance

DVD-ROM Read: 16x, Max
CD-ROM Read: 40x, Max
DVD+R Write: 16x
DVD-R Write: 8x
DVD±RW: 4x
CD-R Write: 40x
CD-RW Write: 24x
CDR LightScribe Write: 1x with LightScribe discs
DVD/CD Access time: 120ms

Interface

E-IDE/ATAPI

Supported IDE mode

PIO mode 0/1/2/3/4
DMA mode 0/1/2
UDMA mode 0/1/2

Buffer Size

2MB

Suppored Formats

DVD
DVD+R DL 8.5GB
DVD+R 4.7GB
DVD+RW 4.7GB
DVD-R 4.7GB (closed session)
DVD-RW 4.7GB (closed session)
DVD-Video
DVD-5
DVD-9
DVD-10
DVD-18
CD CD-DA
CD-ROM XA (m1, m2f1/m2f2)
CD-R
CD-RW
Bootable CD
Photo CD (single & multi-session)
Video CD
Super Video CD
CD-Extra
Mixed-mode CD
CD-Text
CD-Graphics

You can read the entire review here. Thanks for the heads up on this one eleewhm, this looks like an interesting drive. For some reason the DL writing specs were not listed but they say it is 2.4x in their tests with the drive they had. If so, is it worth the extra money for a LightScribe capability?

Source: Hardware Zone