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The Mediagear supports writing Ultra-Speed CD-RW discs at 24X speed. It supports writing DVD+RW discs at 4x and DVD-RW discs at 2X. This drive has higher CD-RW and DVD+RW writing speeds than most of the competitors and thus has an advantage.

Re-Writing data:

For this test we set up a new compilation containing 650Mb of data in Nero Burning ROM. We used the DAO (Disc At Once) writing method. In the screenshot below you can see that the burn process completed successfully.

The Mediagear used 3 minutes and 44 seconds for writing the disc at 24X, let us compare this to some other writers; The Lite-On LTC-48161H using CAV(Constant Angular Velocity) writing tech used 4 minutes and 56 seconds to write the disc, the Lite-On LDW-411S which also uses P-CAV(Partial Constant Angular Velocity) writing strategy used 3 minutes and 43 seconds to write the disc. This makes it just as fast as the Lite-On LDW-411S and much faster than the Lite-On LTC-48161H drive.

And here is the writing time for writing 4.4Gb of data to a 2X Verbatim DVD-RW disc:

The drive used 29 minutes and 10 seconds to write the disc at 2X. Compared to the Memorex Dual-X (used 28 minutes and 51 seconds to write the disc) and the Lite-On LDW-411S (used 29 minutes and 22 seconds to write the disc) it places between these two drives.

And finally here is the writing time for writing 4.4Gb of data to a Ricoh 4X DVD+RW disc:

The Mediagear used 14 minutes and 17 seconds to write the disc, as a comparison the Aopen DRW-4410 used 14 minutes and 57 seconds and the Lite-On LDW-411S used 14 minutes and 19 seconds.

CD-RW Packet writing:

Now it's time to take a look at the packet writing performance of the Mediagear. We used Sonic DLA 4.5 to write 401 MB (421 003 264 bytes) data to the disc.

We have had a hard time finding a packet writing program that would work as expected, right now Sonic DLA have proven to be the best although it's not perfect either as it may conflict with Nero and InCD. It will not even install unless you uninstall Nero and InCD.

DVD-RW/DVD+RW packet writing tests:

We used Sonic DLA 4.5 to format and write 2Gb (2 217 820 160 bytes) data to the disc.

There is really no difference in Packet writing performance and all drives performed very good.

Before we round off this review, let us run the drive through some advanced tests at next page…