LaCie d2 DL DVD±RW Recorder - Page 9

DVD Recording Tests

- Writing Performance

The LaCie d2 DL drive supports DVD-R/RW and DVD+R/RW writing. The maximum supported speed for the DVD±R is 8X Z-CLV and 4X CLV for DVD±RW media. Nero Burning Rom reported speeds are shown below.

Below are listed the media codes supported for the ±R/RW formats at the various recording speeds, as supported with v2.04 firmware:

By using Nero CD-DVD Speed with DVD-R and DVD+R media, we are able to see the 8X Z-CLV recording technology being used by the recorder.

• DVD-R media @ 8X

• DVD+R media @ 8X

The drive's writing performance was the same for both formats. The recorder started to write at 4.13X and reached a maximum value of 8.28X, with an average speed of 6.79X.

- 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

Recording times seems to be different for different media brands. The drive's support list for DVD-R 8X media seems to be rather limited. Only TY and Verbatim media could be written at 8X, and other 8X discs were recorded at 4X. The best performance came with TY media (9:21mins).

• DVD+R media

With DVD+R media, the best recording time came again with Plextor (TY) and Verbatim 8X media, at 9:16mins. It should be noted that TraxData 4X media was recorded at 6X (as with the NEC ND-2510A) and 3A 8X media was recorded at 2.4X.

- DVD Overburning Tests

Using Nero CD-DVD Speed , we tested if LaCie 's drive can overburn using DVD+R and DVD-R media. Unfortunately, the drive does not support overburning, giving the following error with all inserted media.

• DVD-R media

• DVD+R media

- DVD+MRW Tests

The LaCie d2 DL drive doesn't support the Mount Rainier feature.