Hi,
Well I finally took the plunge & got the NEC 3540 drive to replace my Liteon 451s.
It has just arrived today & the first DVD-R that I wrote was a Ritek G05, the results were not too bad, with a PI of no higher than 90.. nothing stunning but an improvement on my LiteOn drive.
However I am now VERY confused & I dont know whether to keep the drive or send it back as the results below seem very bad.
Also I dont know if this is normal or not, but the drive LED is green & doesnt turn to a different colour to indicate its burning like my LiteOn does, but more so than that is that when the drive light comes on, it makes my HD light stay on, its like the 2 are working in tandem, when its reading, or burning I cant see my HD light flicker anymore to indicate activity as its matching what the led on the NEC is doing, is that weird or what?
Anyway, here are some results...
(Ridisc) CMC MAG AE1 8x DVD-R (burned at 8x)
It was scanned using the NEC 3540 drive.
I then put the disc in my Liteon 451s>812s & this is the KProbe result.
I then tried running the disc through the speed test on the NEC drive, this was the result.
(Ridisc) Ritek Extreme A+++ G05 DVD-R 8x (burned at 8x)
Again this was scanned using the NEC 3540.
Now the same disc scanned using the LiteOn.
(Taiyo Yuden) TYG02 DVD-R 8x (Burned at 8x)
Also scanned using the NEC.
Now the same disc scanned using the LiteOn.
After these scans I read about the ECC rate, so I changed it from 8 to 1 like you all say on this forum but its only made a marginal difference to the CMC MAG scan above.
The results seem all over the place, the speed test indeed indicates that the DVD has problems reading because of the high errors, but then again it plays fine in my very fussy DVD player downstairs.
What do you all think of these results? have I got a duff drive? or something else? I got this drive after seeing everyones really low results on here, but I dont seem to be getting anything like what I have seen on here.
Any help would be appreciated as I can still send this back for a refund or a different make, it was either this or the Pioneer 109.
Thankyou!
Nick :-o