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CD Freaks BurnStats
Monthly statistics for burning devices and media, provided by VSO-Software.

Burn Statistics for June 2008

CD Freaks BurnStats provide a quick overview of usage and success rate of burners and media, based on historical data provided by real life usage of VSO-Software. This software, which is installed by tens of millions customers worldwide, anonymously sends information about each burn to our database. From this data we can derive up-to-date statistics about burners and media. More information can be found here.

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In the past, we compared the VSO statistics with company market reports, and the results were mostly corresponding. Therefore, these statistics can be considered reliable.


Most used devices:

Previous        Manufacturer Model
1 (1) LG DVD-RAM GSA-H55N
2 (2) LG DVDRAM GSA-4167B
3 (3) Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-111D
4 (4) LG DVDRAM GSA-4163B
5 (5) LG DVDRAM GSA-H42N
6 (6) Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-112D
7 (7) LG DVDRAM GSA-H10N
8 (8) TSST Corp CD/DVDW SH-S182M
9 (9) Matshita DVD-RAM UJ-850S
10 (10) TSST Corp CD/DVDW SH-S182D
11 (15) LITE-ON DVD A DH20A4P
12 (11) LITE-ON DVDRW LH-20A1P
13 (13) LG DVDRAM GSA-T20N
14 (12) NEC DVD_RW ND-3550A
15 (14) LITE-ON DVDRW SHW-160P6S
16 (16) LG DVDRAM GSA-H10A
17 (17) TSST Corp CD/DVDW TS-H653L
18 (18) LG DVD-RAM GSA-H22N
19 (22) LG DVDRRW GSA-H30L
20 (-) TSST Corp CDDVDW SH-S202J
21 (19) Optiarc DVD RW AD-5170A
22 (21) Sony DVD RW DRU-830A
23 (-) LG DVD-RAM GSA-H58N
24 (20) LG DVDRAM GSA-H44N
25 (23) Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-110D


Most successful devices:

Manufacturer Model Success rate
LG DVD+-RW GSA-H73N 99.05%
LG DVD-RAM GSA-H50L 98.95%
LG DVD-RAM GSA-E60L 98.64%
Optiarc DVD+-RW AD-5170S 98.56%
NEC DVD+-RW ND-3650A 98.55%
Optiarc DVD+-RW ND-3570A 98.51%
Sony DVD RW AW-G540A 98.48%
Optiarc DVD+-RW AD-5540A 98.43%
LG DVD-RAM GSA-H55L 98.40%
10  LG DVDRAM GSA-H62N 98.38%


Most used brands:

Previous       Manufacturer  Market share
1 (1) LG 30.03%
2 (2) TSST Corp 15.71%
3 (3) Pioneer 8.60%
4 (4) Sony 6.53%
5 (5) LITE-ON 6.49%
6 (6) NEC 6.12%
7 (7) Optiarc 6.07%
8 (8) Matshita 3.93%
9 (9) Philips 3.60%
10 (10) HP 3.01%


Brands with highest success rate:

Manufacturer   Success rate
LG 96.97%
Asus 96.84%
Optiarc 96.57%
Philips 96.29%
NEC 96.22%
BenQ 95.88%
Pioneer 95.66%
Plextor 95.43%
Teac 95.21%
10  Philips-BenQ 94.78%


Most used media formats:

Format Market share   Success rate
DVD-R 54.06% 95.64%
DVD+R 36.54% 95.84%
DVD+RW 4.06% 95.16%
DVD-RW 2.25% 91.42%
CDR 1.89% 91.96%
DVD+R DL 1.15% 90.31%
DVD-R DL 0.03% 88.46%
DVD-RAM 0.01% 70.77%
BD-RE 0.00% 60.00%


Most successful media codes:

Media Code Success rate
YUDEN000-T03-00 97.55%
GSC005 97.29%
TYG03 97.09%
MXL RG04 96.87%
MXL RG03 96.75%
PRINCO8X02 96.67%
RITEKG05 96.52%
PRODISC-R04-04 96.44%
GSC003 96.40%
10  RITEK-R05-01 96.38%


Most used media codes:

Media Code Market share   Success rate
CMC MAG-M01-00 10.82% 95.64%
CMC MAG. AM3 10.49% 95.27%
MCC 03RG20 7.49% 95.49%
MCC-004-00 5.69% 95.84%
RITEKF1 5.45% 94.90%
TYG02 5.24% 95.77%
SONY16D1 4.84% 94.61%
SONY-D21-00 4.67% 95.43%
RICOHJPN-R03-04 3.00% 95.47%
10  MBIPG101-R05-01 2.56% 95.77%