Aopen's upcoming DRW8800 will reach the market shelves in a couple of weeks. The drive supports 8x recording for both DVD+R/-R formats, as well as 4x for DVD-RW/+RW. Users will be able to burn CD-R's at 32x Z-CLV and CD-RW at 24x max. The DRW8800 supports the running OPC feature, which calculates the optimum laser power and adjusts it in real-time, maintaining higher writing quality. Buffer under run error prevention technology is also included in the drive's specifications.

Technical specifications:

- Interface: E-IDE/ ATAPI
- Write:
DVD+/-R 8X, DVD+/-RW 4X, CD-R 32X, CD-RW 16X
- Read: DVD-ROM 12X, DVD+/-R 8X, DVD+/-RW 8X, DVD-Video 5X, CD-ROM 40X, CD-R 40X, CD-RW 32X
- Data Transfer Rate:
DVD+RW/+R Write 4X-CLV / 8X-ZCLV
DVD-RW/-R Write 4X-CLV / 8X-ZCLV
CD-R Write 32X-ZCLV
CD-RW Write 24X-ZCVL
CD Read 40X
DVD Read 12X
- Average Access Time:
CD 120ms
DVD 140ms
- Data Buffer Memory: 2MB
- Supported Formats:
CD-Audio, CD-DA, CD-ROM, CD-ROM XA, CD-R, CD-RW, CD-I, Photo-CD, Video CD, CD Extra, CD Text, DVD+RW/+R, DVD-R/RW, DVD-ROM, DVD-Video, - CD Writing modes:
Disc at Once, Packet Writing, Sesion at Once, Track at Once
- DVD Writing modes:
Disc at Once, DVD-Video, Incremental(DVD-R/-RW), Multi-Border(DVD-R/-RW), Multi-sesion (DVD+R/+RW), Random write(DVD+R/+RW), Restricted overwrite (DVD-RW), Sequential write (DVD+R/+RW)