CD Freaks BurnStats

Burn Statistics for June 2009

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 DVD-RAM GH22NP20
3 (3) LITE-ON DVD A DH20A4P
4 (4) TSST Corp CDDVDW SH-S202J
5 (8) TSST Corp CDDVDW SH-S223F
6 (5) LG DVDRAM GSA-4167B
7 (7) LG DVDRAM GSA-T20N
8 (6) Matshita DVD-RAM UJ-850S
9 (9) LG DVDRAM GSA-H42N
10 (12) LG DVD-RAM GH22NS30
11 (10) TSST Corp CDDVDW TS-L632H
12 (11) LG DVDRAM GH20NS10
13 (14) Optiarc DVD RW AD-7200A
14 (16) LG DVDRAM GH20NS15
15 (13) LG DVDRAM GSA-4163B
16 (15) Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-111D
17 (18) TSST Corp DVD+-RW TS-L632H
18 (17) LG DVDRAM GSA-H10N
19 (22) TSST Corp CDDVDW TS-H653N
20 (20) TSST Corp CD/DVDW SH-S182M
21 (21) TSST Corp CD/DVDW SH-S182D
22 (19) Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-112D
23 (23) LG DVD-RAM GSA-H58N
24 (24) Optiarc DVD RW AD-7200S
25 (-) LG DVDRAM GSA-T40N


Most successful devices:

Manufacturer Model Success rate
LITE-ON iHAS122 8 99.28%
Philips DVD+-RW DVD8881 99.21%
Optiarc DVD+-RW ND-3570A 99.08%
LG DVD+-RW GH30N 99.06%
Optiarc DVD+-RW AD-7200S 99.03%
LG DVD-RAM GH20LP20 98.95%
LG DVDRWBD GBC-H20N 98.91%
Optiarc DVD RW AD-7220A 98.87%
LG DVD-RAM GH22LS30 98.87%
10  LG DVDRAM GSA-H60N 98.84%


Most used brands:

Previous       Manufacturer  Market share
1 (1) LG 34.31%
2 (2) TSST Corp 19.05%
3 (3) Optiarc 10.15%
4 (4) Pioneer 7.57%
5 (5) Sony 4.71%
6 (6) Matshita 4.00%
7 (7) LITE-ON 3.74%
8 (8) NEC 3.66%
9 (9) Philips 2.30%
10 (10) HP 2.24%


Brands with highest success rate:

Manufacturer   Success rate
LG 97.28%
Asus 97.10%
Optiarc 96.82%
Philips 96.64%
NEC 96.45%
TSST Corp 96.22%
PLDS 96.19%
BenQ 96.12%
Pioneer 96.09%
10  Plextor 96.02%


Most used media formats:

Format Market share   Success rate
DVD-R 57.23% 96.41%
DVD+R 33.66% 96.64%
DVD+RW 4.19% 96.16%
DVD-RW 2.69% 92.67%
CDR 1.23% 92.09%
DVD+R DL 0.95% 90.55%
DVD-R DL 0.04% 90.49%
DVD-RAM 0.01% 69.11%


Most successful media codes:

Media Code Success rate
YUDEN000-T03-00 97.57%
MXL RG04 97.38%
GSC005 97.16%
TYG03 97.10%
PRINCO8X02 96.93%
FTI-016-00 96.92%
ISSM-003-00 96.81%
RITEKG05 96.81%
AML-003-00 96.70%
10  MXL RG03 96.68%


Most used media codes:

Media Code Market share   Success rate
CMC MAG. AM3 12.20% 95.89%
CMC MAG-M01-00 10.17% 96.20%
MCC 03RG20 8.54% 95.93%
TYG02 7.29% 95.91%
RITEKF1 7.08% 95.54%
MCC-004-00 5.73% 96.27%
SONY16D1 5.15% 95.10%
SONY-D21-00 4.85% 95.79%
RITEK-F16-01 4.46% 96.35%
10  RITEKG05 2.75% 96.81%