It's time again to tell about another review on our favorite review site CDRlabs. This time Ian took a look at the LG GCE-8240B CDRW drive that writes at 24 speed, rewrites at 10 speed and reads your data back at 40 speed.
The drive has a 8MB buffer and ExacLink technology to prevent buffer underruns. The drive performs pretty well and is not expensive, and so it even gets a CDRLabs Best Buy award.
Part of conclusion: |
The GCE-8240B has the same features and quality I'm used to seeing from LG, but with better performance. As a reader, it was pretty fast. Throughout most of our tests it was able to exceed 40x with both pressed and CD-R media and while doing DAE. On top of that, it had some pretty respectable seek times. When writing, the GCE-8240B also did very well. Even though its average writing times were some of the slowest I've seen on a 24x writer, this did not seem to effect its real world performance. I was really surprised when it took the drive less time to write our test data than a lot of drives with faster average writing speeds.
Overall, the drive's features were very good. The GCE-8240B has a huge 8MB buffer and if that isn't enough it also has Oak Technology's ExacLink technology to help prevent coasters. Between the two of them, the GCE-8240B had no problems with buffer underruns. The kit LG has put together is also very good, including some of the best manuals around. While I would have preferred to have seen Nero Burning Rom, I was pretty happy that LG has finally updated the version of Easy CD Creator shipping with their drives to 5.1. Windows 2000 and XP users should be happy too since version 5.1 supports these OS's without any patches.
In the conclusion also some bad points of the drive are mentioned that are no support for DMA33 and only 32x CDRW read back. Read the entire review here.
Source: CDrlabs.com
