GSA-2166D VISTA DRIVER

For ease of installation, the GSAD is hard to beat. Their new "Super-Multi" drive not only supports all major DVD formats, it sports some pretty impressive specs. While this doesn't have any effect on movie playback, there are faster drives out there if you want to backup your movie collection. To test rewrite scores, Nero is used again to time how long it takes to write MB of random files and directories. Instead of erasing at 32x, the GSAD seemed to erase at only 16x. As you can see, it came up a little short of this speed in our tests.

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The GSAD gave some mixed results in this test. Anonymous Apr 28, Some even slow down to read single layer DVD-Video discs. Posted on Jan 02, I used 12x rated Memorex Gold 74 minute media for the tests.

LG's new external writer sports a more sophisticated look thanks in part to its glossy black bezel and silver highlights. CD Error Correction 4. Using CloneCD version 4.

This buffer is also backed up by some form of buffer underrun protection. With features and specs like this, LG's new "Super-Multi" drive sounds like it has a lot of potential. If you look at the advanced features, you can see that the GSAD was able to read the Gs-2166d, subchannel data and even the lead in and lead out sections of the CD.

Nero 8 works GREAT but my trial ran out and I really can't afford to buy it right now although it's top's on my list of toys!! After making sure that the drive was recognized correctly in the Device Manager, I was ready to start installing the software.

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Les Dickinson Level 3 Expert Answers. By looking at the screenshot you can see that the drive starts reading at about 3.

These instructions are pretty brief since there really isn't much to do other than plug in a few cables and turn the computer on. Does LG's new drive have what it takes? While this didn't have much of an effect on the drive's quick erase times, it took more than 5 minutes to do a full erase.

Thanks for the help guyz. Hi, i know this is my first post but anywayz, i've read the other post and I know it has nothing to do with you guys but I tried following everything and im not vidta good with these things so yeahh, I need help.

LG's external DVD writer also supports a feature called "bitsetting.

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Looking at the graphs above, you can see that the media from Taiyo Yuden and Fuji yielded some pretty good results. More importantly, the guide contains a set of instructions that take you step by step through the installation process. To implement this new technology, most drive manufacturers had to make some sacrifices in regards to performance. Every error a drive creates could be a hiss or pop you would hear later in the audio tracks.

Until now, there were very few options, unless you wanted to shell out thousands of dollars for a certified test machine. Like many, the performance of first generation LightScribe drives left me wanting more.

LG GSA-2166D

These discs did not seem to be supported by the GSAD as the writing speed was limited to only 4x. Like the front bezel, the top of the enclosure is made out of a glossy black plastic. This new version also adds features like DivX playback, audio time stretch and support for CyberLink's new Eagle Vision technology. The GSAD did surprisingly well here. The drive read pressed and CD-R media at speeds as high as 48x and had some very good seek times. For this test I used Pure Funk.

What code is in the image? However, this didn't keep it from reaching amaximum DAE speed of The score given is an average of the three.