I picked up one of these from www.aria.co.uk last week for £40 to replace the NEC 1300a drive I had had for just over a year. Installation is very easy, just a matter of connecting up a power cord and ribbon cable, only took a few minutes.
The drive will copy both -R and +R DVD's (and re-writeable) plus the usual CD's. Copy speed for a full DVD is about 9 minutes and a CD around 2. No software came with the drive, but DVD Shrink (free ware) and Copy ToDvd (£20) covers all your needs, and both programmes are easy and intuative to use. The drive copies DVD media at up to 16 speed and CD media at 48 speed. I have tried several different brand of DVD's and they have all worked without problem
This drive is quieter than my old one, and to be honest, I am amazed at the speed of recording.
This is the only drive I have in my main ...
rik_uk3 18.03.2005
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Advantages: Reads practically everything. Writes to TWO formats (+RW and -RW) Disadvantages: None so far, but disk costs make it more important not to waste any
news is that, unlike Betamax and VHS tapes, at least these things are all the same shape, so that, given a sufficiently versatile machine, it should be possible to read/play them all, even if you can only record one of them.
NECND-1300A
And this is where I FINALLY get to the point.
I?ve just bought a NECND-1300a DVD Re-Writer to put in my latest reincarnation of my PC. Not only can it read all the existing formats of DVD, but unlike the vast majority of its peers, it can actually write to TWO of them, not the more normal one. There is one other maker producing a similar machine at time of writing, Sony, but this is in such heavy demand that it is on very long delivery and/or higher priced.
At £220 for the retail version, complete with recording software bundle, the NEC doesn?t actually, when bought from www.dabs.com, cost ...
Advantages: Very Quiet Disadvantages: Somewhat prone to read errors
) which this NEC 3500 was purchased to replace can however happily extract data from this discs!
Another plus point is the noise, or rather lack of, from this drive. As it is in a PC placed under the TV in my living room, I was very pleasantly surprised by how quiet it is in operation, especially considering the relative budget price of the drive ...
Morrs 03.02.2005
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ND-1100 is a DVD writer with support for the most compatible format DVD+R/RW. A maximum speed of 4x makes it possible to write a full DVD, 4.7GB, in less than 15 minutes. ND-1100 is also equipped with NEC's own technique AOPC, Active Optimum Power Control. During the writing process the reading quality is monitored and if the reading quality should go down the laser effect is adjusted so optimal reading quality is achieved. ND-1100 is of course compatible with ordinary CD-RW media so you can still use it as a CD-RW. ND-1100 is perfect for users who need to store large amount of data (max 4.7Gb), fast, flexible and simple.
