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Positive:

• Supports 8x P-CAV DVD+R speed.
• Supports 8x DVD-R and 4x DVD-RW
• Supports 4x DVD+RW speed.
• Among the faster 8x DVD-writers for writing DVD+R discs.
• Good reading capabilities.
• Supports DAO-RAW writing.
• Supports reading and writing of full SubChannel Data.
• Supports reading and writing 8cm CD-R discs and credit card CD-R discs.
• Good seek times.
• Fast and perfect audio extraction.
• Supports reading and writing 99 minutes CD-R discs.
• Good CD-R writing quality
• Supports HD-BURN technology giving more space on CD-R discs.

Negative:

• Poor DVD+/-R/RW writing quality with most disc types
• Does not even qualify as a '1 sheep" writer in the sheep test.
• Does not support Mt. Rainier.
• Does not support writing/reading 99 minutes CD-R discs.
• Does not support bitsetting for any media types.
• Slow at writing DVD-R at 8x.
• Few CD-R discs that works with the HD-BURN technology, HD-BURN created discs works in almost no drives.
• Poor CD-RW writing quality
• Slows down writing speed on many DVD+/-R discs when writing.

  Conclusion:

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  Overall the drive has it positive points, but the writing quality is not up to what we expect from a DVD-Writer, let us group the most negative and most positive points together.

   The main positive points: The drive did not have any problems reading any of our discs and shows good audio reading abilities too. It's also a good CD-R writer as the speed is good and the produced discs have good quality. It's also a good reader for protected audio discs and supports credit card and 8cm sized CD-R discs.

  The main negative points: The most noticeable problem is the writing quality with all types of DVDR/RW discs, there are just too many discs that it has problems with. Beside this there are some small point worth mentioning; It's not a good drive for backing up protected game discs as it do not even qualify as a 'one sheep" writer. And it does not support bitsetting and writing/reading 99 minute CD-R discs.

  To sum it all up, this is the best we could say: 'The DVDR/RW writing quality needs improvements before this drive becomes a good choice."

  You may discuss/comment this review below or in this forum thread.

  Thanks to:

  Conrexx for providing the  media used in this review. Conrexx technology is the supplier of Traxdata media as well as other Ritek media brands for whole Europe.

   For providing the That's Write media used in this review. That's Write focus on providing quality media at reduced prices in Europe.

   For providing some of the Memorex media used in this review. Memorex is one of the largest providers of all types of media for larger parts of the world.

   For providing us with Mirror and Miflop Extreme media. Miflop media aims at providing both cheap (INFOSMART) and expensive ( Taiyo Yuden) quality media.

  For providing the RiData media used in this review. RiData is a Ritek brand and thus you are sure to get Ritek manufactured discs when buying RiData media.

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