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AOpen DRW-8800 AAN Dual
Specification Introduction
Content
Specification
Conclusion
  Written by: Benjamin Sun 4/26/2004

 

 

 

 

Interface

    ATAPI / E-IDE

Speed

    Write : DVD+/-R(8X) DVD+/-RW(4X) CD-R(32X) CD-RW(16X) ,Read : DVD-ROM(12X) DVD+/-R(8X) DVD+/-RW(8X) DVD-Video(5X) CD-ROM(40X) CD-R(40X) CD-RW(32X)

Data Transfer Rate

    DVD+RW/+R Write 4X-CLV / 8X-ZCLV
    DVD-RW/-R Write  4X-CLV / 8X-ZCLV
    DVD Read 12X
    CD-R Write 32X-ZCLV
    CD-RW Write 24X-ZCLV
    CD Read 40X

Average Access Time

    DVD 140ms
    CD 120ms

Data Buffer Memory

    2MB

Supported Formats

    CD-Audio
    CD-DA
    CD-ROM
    CD-ROM XA
    CD-R
    CD-RW
    CD-I
    Photo-CD
    Video CD
    CD Extra
    CD Text
    DVD+RW/+R
    DVD-R/RW
    DVD-ROM
    DVD-Video

DVD Writing mode

    Disc at Once
    DVD-Video
    Incremental(DVD-R/-RW)
    Multi-Border(DVD-R/-RW)
    Multi-sesion(DVD+R/+RW)
    Random write(DVD+R/+RW)
    Restricted overwrite(DVD-RW)
    Sequential write(DVD+R/+RW)

CD Writing mode

    Disc at Once
    Packet Writing
    Sesion at Once
    Track at Once

Disk Size

    12mm and 8mm

MTBF

    70,000 POH

Power Requirement

    DC5V±5%, DC12V±5%

Mounting Orientation

    Horizontal / vertical

Weight

    Less than 1.02kg

Dimensions

    Width 148mm
    Height 46mm
    Depth 190mm

Temperature

    Operating 0°C ~ 45°C
    Non-operating -40°C ~ 65°C

Humidity

    Operating Max 70%
    Non-operating 20% ~ 90% R.H.

Safety Requirement

    Safety Requirement (UL,C-UL,TUV,CB,NEMKO

The DRW-8800 is a 8X DVD+/-RW drive. As is typical of drives with 8x speed today, it’s capable of writing 4X DVD+ or – RW, 8X DVD+ or – R, 32x CD-R, 16x CDRW, It reads as a 16x DVD, 40x CD, 8X DVD +/- RW etc (it’s in the chart above). I kind of wish that the drive would write as a 8X DVD+/- RW but truthfully 8x DVD +/- RW media is scarce. I went to a local Best Buy, a Circuit City, and a Office Depot finding only 4x DVD +/- RW media so it shouldn’t be a big negative.

The drive has 2 MB of cache, which is much higher than my first DVD drive which had 512 KB of cache. As a DVD RW, this is a typical amount of cache that most RW drives have today. The other specifications are also typical of RW drives of this speed and generation. The average seek time is excellent and the drive supports reading of all the different media available for DVD and CD.

Test System
3.0 GHz Pentium 4 Northwood
AOpen i875P motherboard
All In Wonder 9600XT video card using Catalyst 4.4
DRW-8800 DVD drive
120 GB Seagate Barracuda SATA drive
Windows XP with SP1
DirectX 9.0b
Onboard Sound

Using a DVD+RW disc, Nero’s CD Speed utility recorded a speed of 4.13x speed on the average. This is virtually exactly what the drive is rated at, with some difference due to the usage of 1.08 GB instead of the 4.7 GB capacity of the DVD. The rating for seek was 130ms which is only a bit above the rated speed of the drive. Burning a 4 GB file onto the DVD took about 18 minutes including data verification and testing of the disc 9 minutes for the burning, 8 minutes for the data verification and 2 minutes for the ancillary programs to run the tests.

I was able to obtain a 8x DVD+R media for the review. Unsurprisingly, Nero’s CD Speed showed an average speed of 5.75x and a maximum speed of 7.60x for this DVD-R. The 7.60x is near the maximum speed of reading a DVD+R disc and near 6x average speed is pretty decent. I’m rather happy with the performance.

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