The Plextor PX-810SA DVD Super Multi Drive is a great performing CD/DVD burner. Its SATA connection opens up bandwidth to allow greater data throughput than EIDE/ATA. It doesn't support HD burning (Blu-ray or HD DVD), but it makes fast work of DVD and CD ripping and burning. At AU$229, it's a pretty obscene price -- but Plextor has always been a difficult brand to get a hold of in Australia, so it's not surprising that there's a premium on import. The Plextor name has always held high esteem in the industry, but not enough esteem to compete with Pioneer's fantastic DVR-212D, which can be picked up for as low as AU$50.
CNET Labs' test results revealed great read and write speeds for the Plextor PX-810SA. Ripping a commercial DVD (8.46GB) to the hard drive took 11 minutes, 29 seconds. Burning that image to a DVD+R DL disc took 21 minutes, 32 seconds. Burning a 4.48GB mixed data file to a DVD+R disc took 7 minutes, 59 seconds. Ripping a commercial CD (746MB) took 2 minutes, 33 seconds. Burning that image to a CD-R disc took 4 minutes, 8 seconds. All the speeds are on a par with the less expensive Sony DRU-830A (EIDE) except for the DVD rip process. The Plextor PX-810SA cuts the rip time by 51 percent -- more than twice the speed of the Sony.
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Commercial CD rip (746MB) | | Commercial DVD rip (8.46GB) |
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CD-R burn (746MB) | | DVD+R data burn (4.48GB) | | DVD+R DL burn (8.46GB) |
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