- Writing Performance

The maximum supported speed is 16X for DVD+R media while with DVD-R it is 8X, and for rewritable media 4X.

Nero Burning Rom reported speeds are shown below.

The drive burns using Z-CLV strategy at 8X/12X and P-CAV at 16X.

By using Nero CD-DVD Speed with DVD-R and DVD+R media, we are able to see the 8X, 12X and 16X recording technologies in action for +R media, and the 8X recording technology for -R media.

• 8X DVD+R Single Layer writing

• 12X DVD+R Single Layer writing

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• 16X DVD+R Single Layer writing

• 8X DVD-R Single Layer writing

- Burning Tests

We burned 4315MB of data on various DVD±R, DVD±RW media. We used the maximum allowed writing speed for each disc.

• DVD-R media

• DVD+R media

- DVD Overburning Test

• DVD+R

• DVD-R

Unfortunately, the drive does not support DVD overburning for both the -R and +R media formats, giving the above error messages.

- DVD+MRW Tests

The drive does not support the Mount Rainier feature.