NEC ND-3500A tested with 16x DVD+R media

September 22, 2004

TheLostSwede used our news submit to tell us "Looks like the NEC drives aren"t the fastest 16x drives around, but at that price I won"t be complaining and if you can burn 12x to 8x DVD-R media I"ll get one for sure."

Luckily, the ND-3500A arrived on the same day that I received a package of 16-speed DVD+R media from Verbatim. This meant that I could test the drive properly, rather than just assuming that it would be fast writing DVD+R discs. As it turned out though, the ND-3500A wasn't any faster writing at 16-speed than the Plextor PX-712A was writing at 12-speed. In fact, burning 4.3GB of digital images at 16-speed took over a minute longer than it did on the Plextor at 12-speed.

Looks like they have the price listed at Â£53 over at the review site, which is about 95 dollars US. For those interested, you can read the entire article here. When you come back, give us your thoughts here or in the insanely popular NEC Forum.

Source: Trusted Reviews