Hi Everyone,
A friend gave me a few LG drives. I have in my system (3x) LG GH24NS90 and (1x) LG GH22NS50. So I have a total of 4 LG drives.
The three GH24NS90 will not read above 1.0x (same disc). I don’t know why this is? However, the GH22NS50 will read way above 1.0x …nearly in the 10x range.
Using the same DVD disc …
ImgBurn shows the following information when I place it in the GH22NS50drive:
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HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH22NS50 TN02 (ATA)
Current Profile: DVD+R
Disc Information:
Status: Complete
State of Last Session: Complete
Erasable: No
Sessions: 1
Sectors: 2,289,328
Size: 4,688,543,744 bytes
Time: 508:46:28 (MM:SS:FF)
Supported Read Speeds: 2.4x, 4.8x, 8x, 10x, 12x, 16x
Current Read Speed: 6.6x - 16x
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Now, for the three LG GH24NS90 drives, I get the following for the same DVD disc:
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HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH24NS90 IN01 (ATA)
Current Profile: DVD+R
Disc Information:
Status: Complete
State of Last Session: Complete
Erasable: No
Sessions: 1
Sectors: 2,289,328
Size: 4,688,543,744 bytes
Time: 508:46:28 (MM:SS:FF)
Supported Read Speeds: 1x, 2x, 4x, 6x, 8x, 10x, 12x, 14x, 16x
Current Read Speed: 1x
Notice that the current read speed is: 1x.
When, I actually try to read the disk, it slowly starts to ramp up until it hit the 1.0x read speed. And it will read any faster than 1.0x!
However, when I read the same disk in the GH22NS50, it averages about 10X read.
What bothers me, is when I insert the same disc in all three GH24NS90 drives, it always says current read speed is: 1x. And true enough, it never reads more than 1x.
What drives the “Current Read Speed”? DVD drive detection of how fast it can read it? Or?
On the other hand, if I due a benchmark test with Nero DiscSpeed, the three LG GH24NS90 have a high data rate. You can hear the drives just spin up and start reading. But, in ImgBurn…I can never get it to read a DVD faster than 1.0x.
Any ideas would be great!