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Articles: Storage
LG GSA-4163B DVD±RW Dual Layer Burner Review: New Member in a Successful Family (page 12)Category: Storage [ 04/05/2005 | 10:09 PM ] Single-Write (Non-Rewritable) MediaNow we can check out how good the new drive is at burning DVD media. Single-write (non-rewritable) formats first. Quality of DVD-R disc burning by LG GSA-4163B at 4x speed As I said above, the drive could only work at this speed in Nero Burning ROM, so I can’t offer you a graph of the burn session. The subsequent reading of the burned disc was performed without problems, making us expect a high-quality disc. The result doesn’t meet the expectations, though. The quality is obviously bad, with tall and lengthy surges of PI errors and failures all around the disc. Once again we meet an optical drive in which the developer pays little attention to optimization of the burn strategies for the lowest burn speeds. The developers must have decided that 4x media were already obsolete. On the other hand, this may be due to me using not a 4x blank, but an 8x medium which is optimized for a higher burn speed. Beta/Jitter and TA Test (Inner, Middle, Outer) The asymmetry is normal; its fluctuations fit within the acceptable range. But the jitter rate is high and is not uniform. That is, the jitter rate is increasing considerably in the second half of the disc. TA Test, however, says it’s all right with the jitter: its uniformity might be better of course, but the drive has no problems with maintaining the required pit/land lengths, save for 3T. The drive “underburns” 3T lengths due to some errors in its firmware. So, I’m inclined to think that there’s a minor defect in the burn strategy coupled with the use of a high-speed medium, because the drive’s optics work well. Now let’s increase the speed to 8x. <%BANNER[banner_468x30]%>
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Category NewsCategory: Storage Tuesday, June 24, 200812:55 pm Seagate Looking Forward Flash Memory Manufacturer – Analysts. Analysts Expect Seagate to Acquire Flash Memory Maker Monday, June 23, 200810:33 pm Dell, Hitachi, Western Digital Sued for Patent Infringement. Dell, Hitachi, WD Accused of Infringing Vibration Control Technology Patents Thursday, June 19, 20085:37 am Half-TB Mobile HDD from Samsung in Mass Production. SpinPoint M6 500GB to Sell at the Price of 1TB Desktop Drives Wednesday, June 11, 200811:03 pm Western Digital Rolls Out “Black Caviar” High-Performance Hard Disk Drives. WD Unwraps New 1TB Caviar Hard Drives Tuesday, June 3, 20088:29 am SanDisk Launches Tiny Solid State Drives for Low-Cost Personal Computers. SanDisk Jumps on Ultra Low Cost Personal Computers Bandwagon with pSSD Lineup All Latest News <%BANNER[right_130x130_1]%>
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