Our drive reviewer Tor Magne - better known as OC-Freak for most of you - has
finished a new drive review again. This time he has taken a closer look at the
DRW1108IM from BTC. The drive is able to write DVD±R at 8x, DVD±RW at 4x, CD-R
at 40x and CD-RW at 24x. Although the drive performed very well when writing
CD-R, it was not as good as it could be when it came to burning DVDs. Here is
part of OC-Freak's conclusion:
 The drive is an ok reader
with most discs including unprotected audio discs, it is also a good
option for backing up protected games as it supports correct EFM encoding
of regular bit-patterns. This drive is also among the best drives we know
of for writing CD-R discs. Another thing we like is that the retail
package includes Nero Burning ROM software, which is our favourite
recording software.
This
time we have many serious issues on the negative side. Most importantly
the DVD-Writing quality, which is completely useless with most 8x discs as
well as with some 4x discs. BTC has a job to do on improving that. And
it's a very slow 8x writer and writes less than 40% of the disc at 8x,
making it over 2 minutes slower than the fastest writers. And almost no 4x
discs works at 8x writing speed, and while we are at it we would like to
mention that the media compatibility could also be improved for DVD-R and
DVD+R discs. |
Don't miss the complete review here. Tor Magne
already started a thread in our BTC Forum
on Club CDFreaks. Feel free
to leave your comments below, at the end of the review or in our
forum.
Source: CD Freaks
