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Date Posted: August 5, 2002

The Drive

    What about the drive itself, what does it look like what are its specifications?  For a complete list of the specifications please .  We will look at some of the more interesting features here.

    Now what are some of the interesting features that this drive offers?

• Buffer Size of 2MB - This is rather small as many drives have 4MB or more of buffer memory.  This isn't necessarily a problem if some sort of burn proof technology is included.

• Seamless Link" - Just like any other burnproof design it allows for a loss of the data stream without rendering the disk being written as a coaster.

• 100ms access time - This is nice to see as previous generations of CDRW's had much higher access times.  These access times are in line with a standard CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive

• 40X writing / 12X rewriting - High transfer rates, but do they meet up with real world tests?  We will have to see.

    The drive seems to be a Philips based drive, as the burn proofing technology called Seamless Link" (Philips tech), and the words Philips, on the bill seems to indicate.  The drive also supports writing to High Speed ReWritable disks, unlike my old 8/4/32 Plextor drive.  The drive also supports overburning, but when testing how much can be overburned to a disk, the drive didn't stop when the limit was reached but rather continued on to the end of the testing range.   The front facade is not completely covering the light coming from the front panel light, which seeps through the volume control on the facade as the picture below shows.

    How was installation?  It was very simple all I had to do was slide the drive in, screw it in, and then plug it in and it was ready to burn.

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