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  Review: Sony DRU-720A Double Layer 16x DVD±RW drive
Time: 16:11 EST/21:11 GMT | News Source: E-Mail | Posted By: David Gasior

CDRLabs.com has posted an in-depth review of Sony's latest DVD writer, the DRU-720A. Capable of writing DVD-R and DVD+R media at 16x, DVD+RW media at 8x, DVD-RW media at 6x, DVD+R DL media at 4x, and CD-R/-RW media at 48x/24x respectively. Is this drive, based on the Lite-On SOHW-1673S, worth consideration for upgrading your machine? How does it stack up against its competition? Here's a snippet from the review:

When it comes down to it, the performance of Sony's new DVD±RW drive was pretty mixed. While the DRU-720A turned in some very good times when writing to DVD±R, DVD±RW and DVD+R DL media, there were a number of cases where the writing quality could have been better.

While Sony's new drive wrote to most of our test media at its rated speeds, it was not able to write to any 8x DVD±R discs at 16x. The DRU-720A's writing quality also could have been better, especially when writing at 16x ... the PI/PIF rates were pretty high at these speeds.
You can read the entire review over at the CDRLabs.com site.
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#1 By 2960 (68.101.39.180) at 3/15/2005 9:36:43 AM
Anyone know if the firmware for the DRU-710A will be updated to provide these new speeds? Sony has a tendancy to do that and I susptect that's the only difference.

I got two DRU-710A's a few months ago from Newegg at a steal price of $80 each. They haven't been around that long :)

TL

#2 By 2960 (156.80.64.60) at 3/21/2005 1:27:13 PM
Yeah, I knew they were light-on's.

Mine are Retail boxed drives. Got them for $79, out the door, months ago :)

Thanks for the CD Freaks info!

TL

#3 By 2960 (156.80.64.60) at 3/21/2005 1:31:08 PM
There is a new update posted earlier this month:

Firmware Upgrade BYX3
DRU-710A | DRX-710UL


* Improvements: Writing performance and reliability improvements.


As usual, they don't say squat about what was changed :(

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