The maximum supported speed is 16X for DVD+R media while with DVD-R it is 12X and for rewritable media, 4X.

Nero Burning Rom reported speeds are shown below.

The drive uses P-CAV strategy for burning DVD+R at 8X/12X and CAV for 16X.

For the DVD-R the writing strategy at 8X is Z-CLV and P-CAV.

• 8X DVD+R Single Layer writing strategy

• 12X DVD+R Single Layer writing strategy

• 16X DVD+R Single Layer writing strategy

• 8X DVD-R Single Layer writing strategy

• 12X DVD-R Single Layer writing strategy

- Burning Tests

For our recording tests we burned 4315MB of a DVD-Video compilation at the maximum allowed writing speed for each media. First, we transferred the movie to the hard disc with DVD Decrypter in DVD-Video format. Then we used the latest version of Nero Burning Rom software to burn the VIDEO_TS file to the discs.

• DVD-R media

• DVD+R media

- DVD Overburning Test

• DVD+R

• DVD-R

Unfortunately, the drive does not support DVD overburning with either the -R or +R media formats, giving the above error messages.

- DVD+MRW Tests

The drive does not support the Mount Rainier feature.