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Originally Posted by WildFrisco ...that support ATAPI devices. 
Pretty thorough but negative review. Were the compared drives (like the NEC) running official or third party firmware? BTW Nero 6.6.0.1 is out (vs 6.3.1.25 used in the review). |
I've not compared it much against the NEC ND-3500AG, only DVD-Writing speed which were done with official fw 2.17.
Beside that it was tested against the BenQ DW1620A that I reviewed a bit earlier.
Negative? yeah -I was disappointed by this drive at first I had big expectations for this drive except for slow Z-CLV writing speed :z
But it disappointed me in these areas:
-CD-Writing quality
-VEEEEEERY poor media compatibility compared to the previously reviewed BenQ DW1620A. Give me a break! media that has been out for a year is still not supported at certified speed? Well known (philips) 16x media that has been available since late may is still not supported? Now give me a break - that plain sucks in my opinion!
-Regular firmware updates???? Not compared to BenQ and Pioneer have done little to cure the problems I've reported to them (like media that should work at 16x do not work at 16x with my drive etc) - opposite to BenQ you may say.......
Well in general the drive and support/backup from pioneer DID disappoint me.