ForumOptiarc AD-7200A detail information
| Posted by | Wendy Collins |
| Posted on | 05/03/08 22:12 |
| Manufacturer | Optiarc |
| Product | Optiarc AD-7200A |
| Description | The Optiarc AD-7200A supports 20x DVD±R, 8x/6x DVD+RW/DVD-RW, 12x DVD-RAM and 12x DVD+R DL/DVD-R DL writing technology |
| Awards |
Editor's Choice Award |
Positive:
- Excellent/very good CD-R/RW writing quality.
- Excellent/very good DVD±R/RW writing quality and performance.
- Excellent DVD±R writing quality.
- Can burn selected DVD±R media faster than its rated speed.
- Very good reading performance and reliability.
- Reads pressed DVD Video SL/DL and recordable media at 16x/12x.
- DVD-RAM read and write at 12x
- Supports automatic BitSetting (BookType DVD-ROM) on DVD+DL.
- Very good Audio CD ripping performance and quality
- No CSS riplock.
- Can overburn CD-R media.
- Can read and write mini DVD media.
Negative:
- No BitSetting (BookType DVD-ROM) for DVD+R/RW media.
- Can’t read or write to 100 minute CD-R media.
Conclusion:
Let us summarize the most important positive and negative points below:
The main positive points:
The Optiarc AD-7200A is a blisteringly fast drive as far as writing DVD R media is concerned, recording the fastest ever DVD+R burn in our reviews. Not only were the 20x DVD R burns fast, 18x and 16x burns were also extremely fast.
The Optiarc AD-7200A wrote our tested DVD±R/RW/DL media with excellent/very good quality and is a huge step forward from the Optiarc 717x series drives.
The Optiarc AD-7200A was able to burn all our tested CD-R media with excellent/very good quality and media compatibility was excellent.
The Optiarc AD-7200A was also able to burn selected DVD±R/DL media at faster than its rated speed.
Audio CD ripping performance and quality was very good indeed.
The Optiarc AD-7200A is a reasonably well built drive. Noise levels, even at 20x are not intrusive.
The main negative points:
There are not that many negative things to say about the Optiarc AD-7200A.
DVD+R/RW BitSetting would be nice and would enhance compatibility with some older standalone DVD players. This is not a big problem, as there are many firmwares available from the CD Freaks community that support this feature.
We would also like to see support for 100 minute CD-R media.
To sum up, this is what we would say:
“The Optiarc AD-7200A is blisteringly fast when writing DVD±R media and writing quality across all media groups is generally excellent. It’s a must have drive”
We were very impressed by the Optiarc AD-7200A writing quality and performance. We decided to award the drive our “CD Freaks Editor’s Choice Award”.
We found the best price available in the UK at the time of writing the review, to be at E-Buyer. £15.71 Inc VAT.
You may comment on this review below or in this forum thread.
Thanks to:
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SVP Communication – The United Kingdom for providing the media used in this review.
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Medea International – United Kingdom for providing the media used in this review. |
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Verbatim - United Kingdom for providing the media used in this review.
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Daxon Technology Inc – Taiwan for providing the BenQ media used in this article.
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Pleomax for providing the media used in this review. |
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Ricoh Europe – For providing the media used in this review.
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For providing 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 |
DVD+RDL: excellent
DVD+R/-R: very good - excellent
CD-R: TY(12x, 5y old) not readable
CD-RW: noname (from Feurio, 10x, 5y old) not readable
DVD+RW: Verbatim 8x (MKMA03) not readdable, I've only 1 test medium
Philips041 with performance problems when formatted on other drive (Pioneer 106 / Benq 1650)
you say: simply excellent ....
take a look at c't 03/08 magazine
I used a Lite-On LH-20A1H to check the results.
That's really an amazing good quality burner.
it worked fine when i first got but now it says that the drivers are corrupt or missing and when i try to update them it says that i have all the latest ones can anyone help meI'd really appreciate some help...
it keeps picking up on an Audio CD but that's it. The drivers that it is using says cdrom, but i can't update the drivers to anything else. Does anyone have any ideas?
I'd really appreciate some help..."
--mine is doing the same thing...after i restored my computer. it worked perfectly before, now when i try to burn a cd in real player, it can't detect a burner. wtf! i tried to get firmware, but the drive won't let it work.
I NEED HELP!
I also notice in my device manager, i have two primary ide's...is that supposed to be???
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