CD Freaks Presents: Optiarc AD-7200A DVD Burner Review - Page 2 - Club CDFreaks

jcusimano2 · 25-03-2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dee-27

It will burn both +R DL and -R DL at 12x if the media is supported.
You need special tools to be able to modify a strategy in this way and the modified strategy didn't work very well.

Really, ??

Cause if you go to optiarc europe website the 7200 drive specs say that +R DL is supported @ 8x & -R DL is supported @ 12x
http://www.sonynec-optiarc.com/produ...rw/ad7200.html

**Liggy** · 25-03-2008

At least the drive allows writing DVD+R DL at 12x if you manually patch the firmwares. This does not mean that there will ever be an official firmware for this.

JesusLovesPorn · 01-04-2008

May I ask you a question, Dee-27?
Does this drive still have the "feature" of lighting up the "hard drive activity" LED, or have they finally fixed it (thus doing away with the need to cut the 39th conductor)?

TEDY · 12-04-2008

so this burner is good, support jitter ?

**Dee-27** · 12-04-2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by JesusLovesPorn

May I ask you a question, Dee-27?
Does this drive still have the "feature" of lighting up the "hard drive activity" LED, or have they finally fixed it (thus doing away with the need to cut the 39th conductor)?

It lights the Hard Drive LED on this system, as does the Pioneer and Lite-On drives in the same system.

@TEDY
Yes, it's an excellent drive, it doesn't report jitter while scanning though.

JRKS247 · 08-05-2008

Hi, this is going to probably sound stupid, but which is a better driver, this or the Pioneer DVR-115? I a planning on getting a new drive, and I'm coming from an old NEC 3500-AG, so I've been out of the DVD drive scene for quite a while. I have read both reviews, and I still cant seem to decide lol. The only thing I will be using this for is backing up large data sets to DVD's, and the only DVD's that I use are Taiyo Yuden 16x's or Verbatim DVD+/-R 16x, so I am wondering which of thses drives will perform better on that media, I dont really care for any others because I wont use it, also I will use Verbatim DVD+R DL's so umm which might be better? And which of the two is quiter?

Thank you for any input.

massageorge · 28-05-2008

@JRKS247
After reading the review on AD-7200 and going through this forum, I'd go for the AD-7200.

airbozo · 2 Weeks Ago

Nice review Dee!

I like the drive, but am having one major issue with it. I use Mondo/mindi to restore a linux partition and after the partition is restored I use the drive to load the customer app, it shows the cd to be blank media. It works fine on a AD-7190...

Still love the drive besides this issue.

negritude · 1 Week Ago

Quote:

Originally Posted by massageorge

@JRKS247
After reading the review on AD-7200 and going through this forum, I'd go for the AD-7200.

Or you could wait for the DVR-116.

tbg · 1 Week Ago

how is it's performance reading discs of not so good condition, like scratched, dirty? last time i was looking for a dvd burner, i remember NECs were notorious for their poor results in this area.

jcusimano2 · 1 Week Ago

Quote:

Originally Posted by TEDY

so this burner is good, support jitter ?

Nec driver are not made to do quality scanning unless you just want to kill time the results are not reliable

25-03-2008	#27 (permalink)
Liggy CD Freaks System Admin Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Monkey Island Posts: 5,063	Re: CD Freaks Presents: Optiarc AD-7200A DVD Burner Review At least the drive allows writing DVD+R DL at 12x if you manually patch the firmwares. This does not mean that there will ever be an official firmware for this. __________________ You need to flash or dump your NEC DVD burner firmwares on your Mac, Windows, DOS or Linux machine? Just try Binflash. Visit Liggy's and Dee's Optiarc and NEC firmware and tools page for all kind of information about NEC and Optiarc drives. Unrequested PM about drive problems will not be answered!

01-04-2008	#28 (permalink)
JesusLovesPorn New on Forum Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Slovakia Posts: 8	Re: CD Freaks Presents: Optiarc AD-7200A DVD Burner Review May I ask you a question, Dee-27? Does this drive still have the "feature" of lighting up the "hard drive activity" LED, or have they finally fixed it (thus doing away with the need to cut the 39th conductor)?

12-04-2008	#29 (permalink)
TEDY New on Forum Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 24	Re: CD Freaks Presents: Optiarc AD-7200A DVD Burner Review so this burner is good, support jitter ?

08-05-2008	#31 (permalink)
JRKS247 New on Forum Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 14	Re: CD Freaks Presents: Optiarc AD-7200A DVD Burner Review Hi, this is going to probably sound stupid, but which is a better driver, this or the Pioneer DVR-115? I a planning on getting a new drive, and I'm coming from an old NEC 3500-AG, so I've been out of the DVD drive scene for quite a while. I have read both reviews, and I still cant seem to decide lol. The only thing I will be using this for is backing up large data sets to DVD's, and the only DVD's that I use are Taiyo Yuden 16x's or Verbatim DVD+/-R 16x, so I am wondering which of thses drives will perform better on that media, I dont really care for any others because I wont use it, also I will use Verbatim DVD+R DL's so umm which might be better? And which of the two is quiter? Thank you for any input.

28-05-2008	#32 (permalink)
massageorge New on Forum Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 3	Re: CD Freaks Presents: Optiarc AD-7200A DVD Burner Review @JRKS247 After reading the review on AD-7200 and going through this forum, I'd go for the AD-7200.

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2 Weeks Ago	#33 (permalink)
airbozo New on Forum Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 1	Re: CD Freaks Presents: Optiarc AD-7200A DVD Burner Review Nice review Dee! I like the drive, but am having one major issue with it. I use Mondo/mindi to restore a linux partition and after the partition is restored I use the drive to load the customer app, it shows the cd to be blank media. It works fine on a AD-7190... Still love the drive besides this issue.

1 Week Ago	#35 (permalink)
tbg New on Forum Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 1	Re: CD Freaks Presents: Optiarc AD-7200A DVD Burner Review how is it's performance reading discs of not so good condition, like scratched, dirty? last time i was looking for a dvd burner, i remember NECs were notorious for their poor results in this area.

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