Optiarc's move in the 24X DVD Burners' market is the new AD-7240S. The supported 24x burning speed is the fastest currently available, and the only competitor is the LiteOn IHAS 324. However, many say that as the burning speed increases, good burning quality is something difficult to maintain. Does this apply for the Optiarc drive, too? Let's move on to the summing of the results to see.

First of all, the drive proved to be a good reader, performing all tasks with speeds according to specifications, and being able to complete them successfully. As far as error correction is concerned, the tests showed us that the drive has good error correction mechanisms on both CD and DVD media.

Next on, are the writing tests that we performed. DVD media were burned at speeds of up to 24X and the result was stunning. We were able to burn a DVD disc in 4 minutes with an average speed of approximately 17.5X. However, only very few discs are compatible with such high speeds. Writing quality tests were performed at CD and DVD media, and the drive turned out to be pretty good at this point. Both DVD+R and DVD-R media produced generally good scores. However, there were also some cases such as the Verbatim DVD-RW 6x and DVD-R DL 12x and were the tests reported uncorrectable digital errors on the burned media.

So the standards are set high with this one. 24X DVD burning is now possible and when you add it to burning quality that is above average, we can only say that the competitors have to work hard to beat Optiarc.