Chris Gohlke
12-29-2005, 12:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/12/30/the_latest_dvd_writers_true_speeds/' target='_blank'>http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/12/30/the_latest_dvd_writers_true_speeds/</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Of all the units we tested for this article, two models had the best overall performance: the NEC ND-3540A and the Toshiba SDR-5472. The Toshiba is actually slightly ahead, but unfortunately it is not yet available on the market. Also, we need to make clear that the differences in performance between writers were slight, about thirty seconds at the most. The exception is in the case of dual-layer burning, where the Sony came out nearly seven minutes ahead of the competition! Still, who's interested in burning to dual-layer when the price of two single-layer DVDs is well below the cost of one dual-layer?"</i><br /><br />Tom's has a pretty detailed look at five of the most current DVD writers. Perhaps the most interesting part of the review is the fact that the biggest problem they had was in actually locating high speed media to test the drives. I'm still burning at 2x for two reasons. One, I have a pretty big stockpile of 2x discs that I got on a blowout sale and two, my DVD players tend not to like anything burned at over 2x.