4163B - Quality Scans

Two more dual-layer burns, Verbatim-branded MKM 001 at 4x.

Discs are from two different ten-packs.

I have a few new scans in the DVD Media section, I will link them instead of cross-posting.

Optodisc DVD+R 16x Burned at 12x HERE


Taiyo Yuden DVD+R 16X

Burned at 12x HERE


Burned at 16x HERE

Here is another OPTODISCR16 at 12x

Here is a YUDEN000 T03 at 12x.

Bought 2x50 cake packs from rima...

Although this is a good burn I am not impressed with this media.

here are some LG GSA-4163B A104 scans and one with A106.

afterwards I've learned that nero cd-dvd speed's quality scans made by Philips SPD2400 should be at 8x, so here are 8x scans of the media that has been scanned at the burn speed before!!

burner LG GSA-4163B A104

Magic DVD-R 8x CMC MAG. AE1 @ 4x



Verbatim DataLifePlus (Advanced AZO) DVD+R 8x MCC 003 @ 12x




burner LG GSA-4163B A106

Verbatim DataLifePlus (Advanced AZO) DVD+R 8x MCC 003 @ 12x



Philips DVD+R 8x CMC MAG E01 @ 8x (burned in 10' 22")

Philips DVD+R 8x CMC MAG E01 @ 8x (2nd Philips media burned with LG GSA-4163B A106, much better burn than the 1st one above)

Verbatim-branded 16x +R media, MCC 004, burned at 16x.

That is one nice burn!

Fujifilm-branded 8x +R media, YUDEN000 T02, burned at 8x.

I'll be damned.

Another Optodisc 16x burned at 12x

I did upload the pic, if it doesn't show up I will offsite link it

Scan from above that never came through.

A couple of recent burns of TYG03 [Sony-branded].

This drive does them better than any other drive I have.

Very good TYG03-burns

It's apparently an improvement with firmware version A106 for this drive. (Agent009's AN16 is actually the same thing as A106.) It's not a well known fact of this drive though.

I was given some DVD's for my Birthday.

These are Pengo White Injet Printable DVD-R 8x

To my horror they are RitekG05's

But anyway here is a 8x Burn.

RITEKG05 actually does burn nicely on the 4163B. It's just that nobody knows how long those discs will last so I wouldn't go putting anything valuable on those discs, if I were you.

Yeah I have burned a few and set them aside, I will be re-scanning them every month to see how well they are holding up.

Memorex DVD+R 1-8x CMC MAG E01 @ 8x (in 10' 23")
Transfer Rate Test


Memorex DVD+R 1-8x CMC MAG E01 @ 8x (in 10' 18")
Transfer Rate Test


MDA DVD+R 4x SONY D01 @ 4x (in 14' 38") (there was a visible scratch at outer side of the ring, abt 5 cm)
Transfer Rate Test


all my 8x burns take more than 10 min., is it normal??

Nope. My 8x burns on my 4163B take about 8min. 10min means that the writer probably burned the discs at 6x. Check your DMA settings (should be UDMA2 for this drive) and if those are ok, try other discs and see how things go. Memorex is really not very good quality media.

here are some burns with MCSE v1.0.8.14 "increase read speed" patched A106 firmware.

Philips DVD+R 8x CMC MAG E01 @ 8x (in 10' 18")
LG GSA-4163B Transfer Rate Test
Philips SPD2400 Transfer Rate Test


Verbatim DVD+R 8x MCC 003 @ 8x (in 7' 58")
LG GSA-4163B Transfer Rate Test
Philips SPD2400 Transfer Rate Test


MDA DVD+R 4x SONY D01 @ 4x (in 14' 43")
LG GSA-4163B Transfer Rate Test
Philips SDP2400 Transfer Rate Test


there were problems with Transfer Rate at the beginnig but it becomes ok by burning more and more discs. Although Verbatim's pie sum is very high, pif graph is nearly excellent, that's my new record, 100- pif sum and < 8 min. burning time!!


@ karangguni

thanks for the answer!! UDMA 2 is available and set for 4163B. perhaps the dirve writes at 6x but showing that it writes at 8x. maybe you are right for the media (i.e Verbatim's burn).

HL-DT-STDVDRAM GSA-4163B, A106, 4476 MB

Burned at 12x with Imgburn

Time: 6:00

Media Information
Region information N/A not a DVD-VIDEO
Media code/Manufacturer ID OPTODISCR16
Media Product Revision Number 00h
Format Type UDF 2.84
Volume Name
Application id
Implementation id
Recording Date/Time (mm/dd/yyyy) 0/ 0/ 0 0:00:00
Format Capacity 4.38GB(4.70GB)
Book Type DVD+R
Media Type DVD+R
Manufacturer Rated Speed Unknown
Available Write Descriptor CLV 16.0x 22161KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 16.0x 22160KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 12.0x 16621KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 12.0x 16620KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 8.0x 11081KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 8.0x 11080KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 4.0x 5540KBps
Data area starting sector 30000h
Data area end sector 23053Fh
Linear Density 0.267um/bit
Track Density 0.74um/track
Number of Layers 1

Complete Media Code
00000000 08 02 00 00 A1 0F 02 00 00 03 00 00 00 26 05 3F .............&.?
00000010 00 00 00 00 00 00 07 4F 50 54 4F 44 49 53 43 52 .......OPTODISCR
00000020 31 36 00 38 23 54 37 12 02 54 6C 02 92 5F 15 15 16.8#T7..Tl.._..
00000030 0B 0B 08 08 01 19 1B 0C 0C 0C 0D 01 00 00 00 00 ................


Optodisc 25 cake pack Silver Lacquer

Philips DVD+R 1-8x CMC MAG E01 @ 8x




Philips DVD+R 1-8x CMC MAG E01 @ 8x


MDA DVD+R 4x SONY D01 @ 4x (14' 07")


MDA DVD+R 4x SONY D01 @ 4x



why Philips and Memorex branded CMC MAG E01's are burning at 6x??

TDK branded Yuden T03 @12x:

Sony branded Sony D21 @12x:

Verbatim DVD+R 8x MCC 003 @ 12x selected (nvidia IDE drivers installed, 4163B can burn max. at 6x)



Verbatim DVD+R 8x MCC 003 @ 8x (MS IDE drivers installed, everything is OK, the first 8x and above burns of my 4163B )



Verbatim DVD+R 8x MCC 003 @ 12x



Memorex DVD+R 1-8x CMC MAG E01 @ 8x