CyberDrive DX082D DVD+RW - Page 13

Conclusion

We should state that due to the use of the Nexperia chipset we expected the CyberDrive drive to have displayed approximately the same behavior as the Philips DVDR824P. This was not the case however; the Cyberdrive drive pushed the chipset to its limits in order to offer higher CD-R and CD-RW writing speeds, while firmware adjustments improved the performance significantly in areas.

The CyberDrive is the fastest 8x DVD+R recorder we have ever experienced, offering impressive recording times. As a point in case, we refer you the excellent 07:48min and the very good 14:09min times for DVD+R and DVD+RW recording respectively. However, the supported media for 8x DVD+R writing is not very long, as it currently stands for this speed.

Of course, burning DVD's at high speed is not the only priority, but a drive should also provide very good writing quality. And in this respect the CyberDrive does not appear to have any problems. Far from it, our PI/PO measurements proved the drive is capable of very good writing quality.

As a CD-R recorder, the CyberDrive was again the fastest, despite its 32x supported writing speed. Even when competing drives reach 40x writing speeds, nonetheless DX082D gave the best times. And of course, once again quality should be our guide. For one more time the drive burned all the media brands we tested at a high quality, with the measurements for jitter values we took proving more than satisfactory. What we should note is that the drive did not record at 32x with all the CD-R media we used.

The same thing also holds true with US-RW media. CyberDrive had the fastest times among the drives.

In reading, the CyberDrive had the highest average reading speeds, with all type of media, CD and DVD.

The CyberDrive DX082D has good error correction for both CDs and DVD's. The performance with defective CD media was high, while the 1.5mm defective area of our CD-Check Audio Test Disc proved to be a problem for the drive. As for DVD media the drive read accurately all of our defective DVD discs, no matter what the size of the defective area, without reporting any read errors.

An important issue, however, is that the drive did not manage to make working backups of all the latest versions of SafeDisc game protection we tested. SafeDisk versions over v2.51.020 are a problem for this drive.

On the other hand, the drive managed to rip and playback all of the protected Audio CDs we tried. Key2Audio and CDS200 were not a problem. The same can be said of 99min Audio CDs.

Although the CyberDrive DX082D is not currently available on the market, it is expected very soon at a very affordable price, below 150 Euros. Combining high performance and reliability, the Cyberdrive DX082D is a respectable representative of the DVD+Rewritable format and rightfully earns our credits.