The Sony BWU-830A is a high-performance internal DVD/CD rewritable burner that offers the latest speeds (18x DVD+/-R and 8x DVD+/-R DL), a nice design touch (interchangeable faceplates), and a full complement of software. Unfortunately, at AU$109, it's on the expensive side for an IDE drive.
The CNET Labs' test results revealed above-average performance for the DRU-830A. Ripping the King Kong DVD (8.46GB) to the hard drive took 22 minutes, 43 seconds. Burning that image to a DVD+R DL disc took 20 minutes, 43 seconds. Burning a 4.48GB mixed-data file to a DVD+R disc took 8 minutes, 34 seconds. Ripping a commercial CD (Different Stripe by Cheryl Wheeler) took 2 minutes, 40 seconds. And burning that image to a CD-R disc took 3 minutes, 20 seconds.
The only issue we had with the DRU-830A was that we couldn't get it to work with all media brands, though it did work seamlessly with Verbatim discs.
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eoflores
07/07/2007, 11:54 PM
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3/10
This dvd burned is advertised to be Vista Ready.
Pros: That is not the case - Vista does not recognize the drive
Cons: Sony name
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