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LG 16x External Super Multi DVD/CD Writer Dual Layer Model: GSA-2166D

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Review of the LG GSA-2166D CD/DVD Writer Dual Layer

LG 16x External Super Multi DVD/CD Writer Dual Layer Model: GSA-2166D
Price: £121 inc VAT @ time of writing, £65inc VAT Jan 06
Site: www.lge.co.uk
Date: November 2005
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LG External DVD Writer Dual Layer 16x GSA-2166D

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LG Electronics are one of the biggest names in the electronics industry. This Korean company manufacturer everything from mobile phones to televisions through to a number of PC components including monitors and optical drives which we will be looking at today.

We are going to be looking at the LG GSA-2166D External DVD Writer; this drive allows the user to write to ANY of the different DVD formats and is dual layer compatible so up to 8.5GB of data can be copied to a single DVD disk.

This drive is an external unit which offers added portability, dual layer for additional storage, multi format compatibility for both read and write, and LightScribe which lets you 'burn' the label onto the disk.

Specifications

Colour

Black

Interface type

USB 2.0

LightScribe Label Printing

Printing Time, 1070TPI 12cm Entire Disc less than 36 minutes,800TPI 12cm Entire Disc less than 28 minutes,530TPI 12cm Entire Disc less than 20 minutes

Weight (kg)

1285.9g

OS-Compatibility

Windows 2000 Professional, XP Home & Prof, ME(Not support LightScribe)

Access time

 

DVD-RAM

250 ms

DVD-ROM

140/175 ms

CD

120 ms

Buffer Memory

2MB with buffer under run prevention technology

Data transfer rate

 

CD

Max 7,200KB/s

DVD

Max 22.16 Mbytes/s

Dimensions W x D x H (mm)

160 x 230 x 50

Disc Loading Method

Motorized Tray

Writing Method

 

DVD-RAM

Random Write

DVD+R

Sequential Recording, Sequential Recording, Random Write

CD-R / RW

Disk-at-Once, Track-at-Once, Session-at-Once, Packet Write

DVD-R

Sequential Recording

DVD-R /RW

Disk-at-Once, Incremental Recording Overwrite

DVD-RW

Sequential Recording

Write Speed

 

DVD+R

2.4x, 4x CLV, 8x ZCLV, 12x PCAV, 16x CAV

DVD-R

2x, 4x CLV, 8x ZCLV, 12x PCAV, 16x CAV

DVD+RW

2.4x, 4x CLV, 8x ZCLV

DVD-RW

1x, 2x, 4x CLV, 6x ZCLV

DVD-RAM

2x, 3x, 5x CLV(Ver.2.2)

CD-R

16x CLV, 24x ZCLV 32x, 40x,48x CAV

CD-RW

4x, 10x, 16x CLV, 24x, 32x ZCLV

DVD+R DL

2.4x, 4x CLV, 6x, 8x ZCLV

DVD-R DL

4x CLV

Read Speed

 

CD-ROM

Max 48x

DVD-ROM

Max 16x

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