Optiarc AD 7260S review

Review Pages

1. Features, specifications
2. CD, DVD reading
3. Reading of defected CDs
4. Reading of defected DVDs
5. CD/DVD Writing quality tester - IQB Omni CD DVD Analyzer by Quantized
6. CD-R writing - Verbatim CD-R 48x
7. CD-R writing - Memorex (Ritek) CD-R 48x
8. CD-RW writing - Verbatim 32x CD-RW
9. DVD-R writing - Philips DVD-R 16x
10. DVD-R writing - Verbatim DVD-R 16x
11. DVD-R writing - Maxell (Ritek) DVD-R 16x
12. DVD-R writing - Ridisc DVD-R (TTH02) 16x
13. DVD-R writing - Taiyo Yuden DVD-R 16x
14. DVD+R writing - Philips DVD+R 16x
15. DVD+R writing - Moser Baer India DVD+R 16x
16. DVD+R writing - Verbatim DVD+R 16x
17. DVD+R writing - Taiyo Yuden DVD+R 16x
18. DVD+R DL writing - Verbatim DVD+R DL 8x
19. DVD-R DL writing - Verbatim DVD-R DL 8x
20. DVD-R DL writing - Verbatim DVD-R DL 12x
21. DVD+RW writing - Verbatim (MKM A03) DVD+RW 8x
22. DVD-RW writing - Verbatim DVD-RW 6x
23. DVD-RAM writing - Maxell DVD-RAM 5x, 12x
24. Summary of CD/DVD writing tests, Booktype
25. Final words

In the following table, we have gathered the findings of the CD and DVD quality measurement tests. On the left side of the table (green) you see the discs that did not produce uncorrectable digital errors (POF), while on the right side (red tabs) there are all the discs that gave uncorrectable errors (E32 for CD or POF for DVD's) For detailed measurement data, visit the corresponding pages:

Media type	Digital errors within limits	Uncorrectable errors
CD-R	Taiyo Yuden CD-R 48x (97m24s01f) burned at 16x
	Memorex (Ritek) CD-R 48x (97m26s66f) burned at 48x
CD-RW	Verbatim CD-RW 32x burned at 32x
DVD-R	Verbatim DVD-R 16x (MCC 03RG20) burned at 20x -- PISum8 slightly >280, jitter
	Philips CMCMAG AM3 16x burned at 16x / jitter
	Maxell RitekF1 DVD-R 16x burned at 16x
	Taiyo Yuden DVD-R 16x (TYG03) burned at 24X / PiSum8, jitter
	Ridisc DVD-R 16x (TTH02) burned at 16x / PIsum8 peak, Jitter slightly increased
DVD+R	Philips DVD+R 16x (INFOME R30) burned at 16x --- PiSum8, jitter	Taiyo Yuden DVD+R 16x certified (YUDEN000 T03) burned at 24X --- POF, jitter
	Moser Baer DVD+R 16x (MBIPG101 R05) burned at 16x
	Verbatim DVD+R 16x (MCC 004) burned at 20X / PISum8 peak
DVD+RW	Verbatim DVD+RW 8x (MKM A03) burned at 8x
DVD-R DL	Verbatim DVD-R DL 8x certified (MKM03RD30) burned at 8x / Jitter increased for both layers, PIsum8 in L1
DVD-R DL	Verbatim DVD-R DL 12x (MKM04RD30) burned at 12x / PISum8 peak in L0, jitter increased for both layers
DVD+R DL	Verbatim DVD+R DL 8x (MKM 003) burned at 8x / Jitter increased for both layers, PIsum8 peak
DVD-RW	Verbatim DVD-RW 6x (MKM 01RW6X01) burned at 6x

- Bit Setting

The specific test was updated with the latest firmware Ver. 1.02 installed. The previous Ver.1.01 did not support booktype settings, according to our tests.

- Overburning DVDs