Recording
VSO Inspector from VSO Software.fr was used for gathering our information about the available speed this media could be recorded at on our review drives. This feature allows us to see the rated speeds available according to the hardware.
The hardware used consisted of the NEC 3500AG, Pioneer DVR 108, BenQ DW 1620A and the Liteon-IT 1633S, all of which are maximum recording speeds of 16x.
Once the maximum available recording speeds for each device had been discovered, CD Speed's Create CD feature was used to record the maximum amount possible to the media at its highest rated speed.
Results show that all drives where capable of seeing and recording the Verbatim 16x+R media at its rated speed of 16x except for the Pioneer DVR 108 which recognised the media at a maximum available recording speed of 12x.
Available recording speeds The options below show you the available recording speeds according to VSO inspector. We performed these tests on a selection of our review drives. Click on the images for the results of each specific drive. 
Pioneer DVR 108 with firmware version 1.14 |
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LiteOn 1633S with firmware version BS0K |
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BenQ DW 1620A with firmware version B7P9 |
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NEC 3500 AG with firmware version 2.18 |
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CD Speed Create CD The Create CD function from CD Speed was used to record the maximum amount of data possible to the Samsung media at its maximum available speed on all review drives.
Pioneer DVR 108 with firmware version 1.14 |
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LiteOn 1633S with firmware version BS0K |
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BenQ DW 1620A with firmware version B7P9 |
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NEC 3500 AG with firmware version 2.18 |
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Overview of recording times:
Each drive used its own version of either Z-CLV or P-CAV writing methods to record this media with a difference of 1 minute between the fastest and the slowest recording times.
Below is a summary of how long our review drives took to record this media:
The BenQ 1620, NEC 3500 and Liteon-IT 1633S all recorded the Verbatim 16x+R media in around 6 minutes using their versions of the 16x CAV writing mode.
The Pioneer DVR 108
recorded the Verbatim 16x+R media in the slowest time taking 6 minutes and 52 seconds to record a full disc using the 12x Z-CLV writing method.
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