Samsung DVD±RW / DVD-RAM drive

Advantages: The software supplied, and the good instructions
Disadvantages: The speed

...DVD+R/+RW and DVD-R-RW DVD+R/+RW, DVD-RAM and DVD-R/-RW are all rewritable DVD formats, however, only DVD+R/+RW is designed from the start to be compatible with existing DVD-ROM drives and DVD-Video players, both on a physical as well as on a logical level. This means that a DVD+R or DVD+RW disc recorded in a DVD+R/+RW video recorder can be played in virtually all DVD-Video players or DVD-ROM equiped PCs, and that any DVD+R or DVD+RW disc recorded with data on a PC DVD+R/+RW drive can be read by most DVD-ROM drives. DVD-RAM uses a totally different kind of physical recording method, which is absolutely incompatible with DVD (hence, it can hardly be called 'DVD'). No normal DVD player will be able to read DVD-RAM discs, even if you use the newer DVD-RAM version without a cartridge housing. DVD-R and DVD-RW were initially not designed... Read review

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Advantages: Brilliant and works with all disks i have used so far
Disadvantages: none really

...This LG GDR 8163B is the latest DVD-RW drive from LG and as per usual is Brillaint to use. This is dual layer drive....8.5GB potential Burns CDr's at 40x about 2 min 32 secs @600mb on an 80min/ 700meg cdr. Also does CDRW DVD-r are a breese and the drive is very fast and quite. DVD+r little slower but works fine with all mainstream disks. DVD-Ram too but the disks a bit expensive so farfor me to try. DVD-RW disks are a breese again using Nero newest version and back-up data is straight forward. Have used Datawrite Grey 8x DVD-R and INFINITI 16x Green DVD-R no probs. But would suggest spending a little moer on good disks. 8XDVD-r time is about 7 mins for 4gb data and 7min 50 secs for DVD files. Overall good machine and well worth the current cost of £35-£32.... Read review

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Advantages: cheap
Disadvantages: Broken within 6 mths

...Stream NeoEdit *Basic warranty 2yrs RTB *Cables supplied EIDE, *analog audio Specifications * Miscellaneous Screws *Technology DVD+R, DVD+RW, CD-R, CD-RW *Operating system support Windows XP Yes Windows 98/Me Y/Y Windows 2000 Yes Other NT *Interface EIDE *Loading mechanism Tray *Vertical orientation Yes *Buffer underrun protection Yes *Write speed control Y *Laser power control Yes *CD Text Yes *Cache/buffer size 2MB *Average random access time CD 120ms, DVD 140ms Tested reading and writing performance *Quoted speeds CD-R Write 22.2x Z-CLV CD-R 24x CD-R Read 26.6x P-CAV CD-RW 10x CD-RW Write 10x CLV CD-ROM 40x CD-RW Read 26.7x P-CAV DVD+R 4x DVD+R Write 3.7x CLV DVD-R Read-only DVD+R Read 6.1x CAV DVD+RW 4x DVD+RW Write 4x CLV DVD-RW Read-only DVD+RW Read 4x CLV DVD-RAM No DVD-R Write N/A DVD-ROM 8x DVD... Read review

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