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Articles: Storage

LG GSA-4163B DVD±RW Dual Layer Burner Review: New Member in a Successful Family (page 9)


Category: Storage

by Vasily Melnik

[ 04/05/2005 | 10:09 PM ]


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Burning/reading the 32x CD-RW disc at 24x speed:
LG GSA-4163 (left) and LG GSA-4160B (right)

There were no problems during the burning/reading of the discs. The graphs are similar to what we have seen with the 24x CD-RW, so let’s get right to the quality check.

 
 
Quality of the 32x CD-RW disc burning at 24x speed:
by LG GSA-4163 (left) and by LG GSA-4160B (right)

The distribution of errors on the two discs is similar: there’s a peak of C1 errors at the beginning of the medium. This peak quite suddenly goes down as the drive achieves its maximum burn speed. The new model, however, has a much better total of C1 errors. The asymmetry on the disc written by the GSA-4163 is still very close to zero, and the jitter rate is lower and more uniform than on the disc burned by the previous model. The GSA-4163 gave out a good disc, considering it doesn’t officially support 32x burn speed for CD-RWs.

Thus, the new model is better than the older one with rewritable CD media, too. The manufacturer has managed to improve the good performance of the GSA-4160, and the new GSA-4163 delivers excellent quality with all the tested media.

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