Testbed and Methods

I used the following programs to check out the driver’s operational characteristics:

• Nero CD-DVD Speed version 3.30;
• Nero Info Tool version 2.27;
• Nic Wilson DVDINFOPro version 2.35;
• SlySoft CloneCD version 4.3.2.2;
• Ziff Davis Media CD WinBench 99 version 1.1.1.

The testbed was configured as follows:

• Intel Bonanza D875PBZ mainboard;
• Intel Pentium 4 2.8GHz CPU;
• IBM DTLA-307015 HDD, 15GB;
• GeForce2 MX400 64MB graphics card;
• 512MB DDR SDRAM;
• Microsoft Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 1 and DirectX 9.0b installed.

The drive was attached to the mainboard’s USB 2.0 port.

Software Utilities: Nero Info Tool and DVDINFOPro

The utilities report the driver’s support of C2 errors correction, but don’t mention its ability to process DVD+R/RW media, which is declared by the manufacturer. The drive is regionally protected.