Matsushita SW-9585 Tests/Review

YSS has his tests/review of the above drive up: http://homepage2.nifty.com/yss/sw9585/sw9585.htm

Thanks!

16x write quality is not good.

http://homepage2.nifty.com/yss/sw9585/9585dvd16x.htm

DVD-RAM 5x

http://homepage2.nifty.com/yss/sw9585/ram.htm

Hmm that's too bad, I hope it can improve with firmware.

I saw it reads and writes DVD-RAM, but what are the specs (my Chinese isn't that good ).

That's Japanese. The write max speed for all DVD is the same as LG GSA-4163B. But they're not the same design.

I will have a new firmware for these drives within a week. I expect serious performance improvement on the write speeds.

Any progress on the new firmware update? I saw NewEgg just drop the price down to 49.99. However, there are two models: SW-9585BDD and SW-9585C. Does there anyone know what is the difference?

Excellent! I would love to see the performance on this drive enhanced.

Newegg will often make up their own "model numbers" to distinguish between colors / oem / bulk / retail versions of the same drive.
In this case it appears that the "SW-9585BDD" is just the bulk version in black and the "SW-9585C" is the bulk version in beige.

I also noticed something quite humorous on the product specs:
DVD+RAM ???? , an obvious typographical error.

Anyone out there have this drive that can share some disc quality scans and/or transfer rate tests on produced discs?

http://forum.rpc1.org/dl_firmware.php?download_id=2030
this site has formware ver B101 for the SW-9585

The firmware comes from IO-Data which is an OEM version of SW-9585. However, I heard the update does not work on newegg model at rpc1.org forum. I just ordered one, and I will give it a try when I receive it.

Just received the Matshita DVD-RAM SW-9585C from Chief Value and have it installed and tests should be available later this evening. Initial impressions:
Firmware Upgrade B-101 failed with engrish error message of "Download No Successful"
Slow in recognizing discs.
Playback of DVD+RW movie backup " Starship Troopers" looks good.
Format of DVD+RW went OK and file copy worked.
Data transfer rates look good.

I'll do the stupid thing first and then you shy people follow... /.

Preliminary Tests:

I've done my part, now where is that firmware update?


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Can you do a 16x burn / tests ?

How did I know someone was going to ask for that? And the answer is no because I don't have any 16X media.


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Some additional scans:

Last Scan:

I want to know if any of you have been able to use DVD+RW 4x with SW-9585???
Also if you have been able to ghost a partition or hard drive using the SW-9585, coze when I ghost my HD on SW-9585 by using software GHOST 2003, it simply doesn't work. But when I ghost on my LG GMA-4020B, it works perfectly. I m still puzzle. Can some one verify it for me, please??? Very much appreciated.

I want to know if any of you have been able to use DVD+/-RW 4x with SW-9585???
Also if you have been able to ghost a partition or hard drive using the SW-9585, coze when I ghost my HD on SW-9585 by using software GHOST 2003, it simply doesn't work. But when I ghost on my LG GMA-4020B, it works perfectly. I m still puzzle. Can some one verify it for me, please??? Very much appreciated.

Opticalbell, have you the new firmware yet???

Works great with DVD+RW 4X. I have booted from the drive with no problems and don't see any reason why Ghost would not recognize it.
The DVD RAM is also a big plus now that I have used it.


There are two secrets to life: 1) Don't tell everything you know... /.

pipemanid,

Do u have to update your firmware before using DVD+RW 4x or not??? Coze when I put my DVD+RW 4X in, my burner SW-9585 said unrecognize format, and whether I try to format, erase or whatsoever, it never works!!!

The ghost 2003 recognize the drive but when it tried to put the image on it, after 1 min, it just asks for a new Blank DVD !!! After 1 min!!! Normally to fill ghost on a DVD it take at least 30 min (4x), so when it takes only 1 min, something is not working!!! So after I put in a new DVD, 1 min later on it asks for a new DVD again!!!! So obvioulsy it's working!!! the reason that I am asking is that I have doubt that my DVD Burner is not working correctly, so I ask to check to see if it's work properly or not.

@happyme, it could also be a media specific problem...
What type of DVD+RW are you using? MID ?
Is it a brand new "fresh" DVD+RW? If not, try one that has never been used.
Have you tried another type of DVD+RW?