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Summer 2005 16x DVDR Roundup

 by Purav Sanghani on July 12, 2005 12:05 AM EST
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16x +R - Ritek R04

Here, we start to see that not all drives accepted Ritek media.

16x +R - Ritek R04 Write

Only 4 out of the 6 competitors could see the disc, let alone write to it. The DW1640 wrote to the disc the fastest in 349 seconds with Sony's DRU-720A following at second.

16x +R - Ritek R04 Read

Here, the DRU-720A could not even complete a read, which means the write wasn't as successful as we thought.

16x +R - Ritek R04

The number of PI errors is in the millions for the SD-R5372 and DVR-109D, more than 2.6 million for the latter.

We have created ZIP files of the screenshots that we have taken of the Nero CD-DVD Speed and PlexTools benchmarks. Feel free to click on the links below to download them.

BenQ DW1640
LG GSA-4163B
NEC ND-3540A
Pioneer DVR-109D
Sony DRU-720A
Toshiba SD-R5372

16x +R - MCC 004 4x -R DL - MKM 01RD30
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  • g33k - Tuesday, July 12, 2005 - link

    Yup, it looks like you might be better off buying a last gen drive. It might take a while for the firmware updates that may improve these drives.

    From the looks of it, NEC and Pioneer are no longer the best drives. BenQ has that title now.

  • Beenthere - Tuesday, July 12, 2005 - link

    Doesn't look like ANY of these drives are worth buying with so many errors.

    SOD, DD. Rushed to market CRAP !!!

  • quadcity - Tuesday, July 12, 2005 - link

    "Special thanks to BenQ for supplying us with the DW1640."

  • nutxo - Tuesday, July 12, 2005 - link

    Where did they acquire a benq 1640?
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