Panasonic Super Multi DL drive has DVD-RAM cartridge support

July 1, 2005

agomes used our news submit to tell us "It seems that there are no indications if we will see it or not. Panasonic drives are not the easiest to find, but it is nice to see a drive accepting cartridge. SuperMulti drives seem to be increasing in number, not just LG. If we think that DVD-RAM has 9.4 gigs a long time ago, besides at stupid prices, its strange new drives coming out just when larger capacity formats are about to start sales."

DVD Writing Speeds:                    Buffer Size: 2MB
DVD+R: 16x Max                            Read Speeds:
DVD+RW: 8x Max                           DVD-ROM: 8x Max
DVD+R DL: 4x Max                         DVD±R: 16x Max
DVD-R: 16x Max                            DVD±RW: 8x Max
DVD-RW: 6x Max                           DVD±R DL: 8x Max
DVD-R DL: 4x Max                         DVD-RAM: 5x Max
DVD-RAM: 5x Max                         CD-ROM: 40x Max
CD-R: 40x Max
CD-RW: 24x Max

AccessTimes: DVD-ROM: 170ms
DVD-RAM: 240ms
CD-ROM: 200ms

Thanks to Ian over at CDRLabs for the heads up on this drive as well! The LF-M821 is expected to ship in Japan on July 16th.

Source: CDRLabs