 | Review: Memorex Dual-X (DVD±RW) Reviewer: OC-Freak Provided by: Memorex Firmware: 1.05 Manufactured: June 2003 |
Memorex was kind enough to send us a review sample of their newest DVD-Writer, the Memorex Dual-X. Memorex is not a newcomer on the market and is providing a range of products like: mices, keyboards as well as various optical drives and optical media, here is a short brief about the Memorex company:
Memorex Products is the No. 1 Brand in Digital Media worldwide, offering a wide portfolio of solutions for storing data, photo, audio and video formats. Memorex's product portfolio includes high-quality products at competitive prices, thus reflecting the company's philosophy to provide innovative concepts on fast-growing market sectors.
In the 1970s, Memorex began producing audio and video tapes. The company now stands at the cutting edge of technology where digital worlds merge, and offers user-oriented, modular solution concepts for the changing needs of end users. Memorex focuses on digital media and the DVD-media growth market, which forms the interface between the PC/Office and consumer electronics sectors. The company's product range includes a comprehensive portfolio of digital media and peripherals, including various storage media such as CD-R/RWs, DVD media, diskettes, digital audio CD-R/RWs and CompactFlash / SmartMedia Cards. It also includes internal and external CD-ROM/CD-RW/DVD+RW drives and a broad and innovative range of input devices such as mice, keyboards and wireless devices such as the optical RF mouse with Mouseport™ or the RF multimedia bundle. Accessories such as flash memory readers round off the product spectrum.
Memorex currently has a 200-strong workforce worldwide and achieved sales of USD 460 million in the 2001 financial year. Memorex Europe was founded in 1998 and has a finance, logistics and customer service centre in London. Memorex Europe is currently represented in 34 countries and has a network of distributors throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa. It has cooperation agreements with companies such as CMC, Hitachi, Ricoh, Ritek, Roxio and Toshiba.
Here is a summary of the specifications of this drive
DVD+R and DVD-R writing: 4X
DVD+RW writing: 2,4X
DVD-RW writing: 2X
DVD reading: 12X
CD-R writing: 16X
CD-RW writing: 10X
CD reading: 32X
If you want to know more about the specifications and requiremts of this drive, head over to memorex.
In this review we will take the drive through several test, and compare the drive to other similar drives. We will also take a look at the included software.
Test Machine:
For this review we will be using a computer with the following configuration:
Hardware:
- Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-8KNXP with Intel i875P chipset.
- Processor: Intel Pentium 4 2,8GHz 800MHz FSB with Hyper Threading support.
- RAM: 1Gb PC3500 DDR
- GFX: ATI Radeon 9800 pro
- Sound: SB Audigy 2
- Hard disks: 2 x Seagate Barracuda ATA IV 80Gb in RAID 0
System set-up:
The Memorex Dual-X was connected as Secondary master and identified itself as Memorex DVD+/-RW Dual-X1. Both autorun and DMA (Direct Memory Access) was enabled for all devices.
Software:
Windows XP professional is installed on the computer along with Service Pack 1 for windows XP. We will be using the following software in this review:
Ahead Nero Burning ROM version 6.0.0.11/6.0.0.15
Ahead Nero CD/DVD Speed v2.02.2 beta
Elaborate Bytes CloneCD v4.2.0.2
Exact Audio Copy v0.95 prebeta 3
DVD Info PRO 2
The included software will be installed and evaluated, but not used in the performance testing part of this review since we want the results to be easily comparable to the other drives reviewed earlier.
Head on to the next page and find out what the box we got contained…
