LG GMA-4020B Super-Multi DVD-R/RW/RAM review @ CDRlabs.com

April 14, 2003

Our friends from CDRlabs have
wrapped up another review, this time they tested the LG GMA-4020B DVD recorder
in their labs. This drive is able to record CDs and DVD-R/DVD-RW and DVD-RAM
discs. DVD discs are written with a maximum speed of 2x and CDs at 12x. CDs are
read at a maximum of 32x and DVD discs at a maximum of 10 speed. LG is a South
Korean brand that is known for good quality products that a very affordable.

Part of
conclusion:

LG's new DVD writer performed pretty well throughout most of our tests.
With some of the new DVD-RW and DVD+RW drives starting to offer 4x writing
speeds, the GMA-4020B does have a slight disadvantage. However, its 2x
DVD-R writing speeds let us write 4GB of data in a little more than 26
minutes. My only disappointment was the GMA-4020B's DVD-RAM writing
performance. While LG rates the drive's DVD-RAM writing speed at 2x, we
saw an average writing speed of less than 1x. The GMA-4020B did better in
our DVD read tests. The drive had no problems reading single layer DVD's
at 10x, but had to slow down slightly for other types of media.