TrustedReviews Looks At The NEC ND-3520A

[Chris Gohlke]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.trustedreviews.com/article.aspx?art=1034' target='_blank'>http://www.trustedreviews.com/article.aspx?art=1034</a><br /><br /></div><i>"The ND-3520A will write to DVD+/-R media at 16x, DVD+R Dual Layer discs at 4x, DVD+RW media at 8x and DVD-RW discs at 6x. The big news here is, of course, the performance boost in the RW space. Unfortunately I was unable to obtain any 6x DVD-RW or 8x DVD+RW media, although Verbatim informed me that this media will be available soon."</i> <br /><br /><br /><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/NECND-3520A.JPG" /><br /><br />If you got it, this should burn it. It will even burn disks you can't get yet (i.e. Dual-Layer Media). Plus it will do it all quickly and not break the bank. If you need a new burner, the people over at TrustedReviews think this is the one to get.

[RenesisX]

What do you mean "can't get Dual-Layer"? :)

I've been burning DL discs for months now and they work nicely in my DVD player!

Wish they were cheaper.. but they'll come down eventually.

[Chris Gohlke]

I stand corrected. Looked for DL disks a week or so ago at Best Buy and was told they were still not available. That's what I get for listening to a BB employee. :evil: I just looked on Amazon and sure enough they are available, but at about $6 a disk. 8O

[RenesisX]

I wouldn't trust someone in Best Buy to know anything about what they are selling, never mind what they're not selling ;)

But yeah, not cheap.. I think my company is paying about $4 equivalent at the moment, but still not the $0.20 we pay for decent single layer discs!

Still, when I was first burning CD-ROMs on my 0.5X burner (which was the size of a PC itself!) the discs were setting me back $20 a piece. When you got a "buffer under-run" error on one of those (which was pretty often) you really did cry!

[Jerry Raia]

I've even seen DL disks at Best Buy. Of course no one at the store knew they were there or what they were. :roll: