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Your thoughts on LG GSA-4081B DVD+/-R(W) 8x Drive please

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AtaStrumf

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I can get this drive (LG GSA-4081B) for a very good price but I'm a little wary because I can't find any reviews of it on the net and I don't wont to take the risk, since DVD burners can be pretty tricky things, and the LG GSA-4040B hasn't exactly passed the tests with flying colours.

So any info or a link to a review would be greatly appreciated.
 
Well since this seems to be such a rare drive I decided I'll be buying two of them. And so I did, one for me and one for a friend. Haven't instaled it yet, but I plan to do so in about 14 hours from now. Still need to get some empty DVD-+R disks to try it with too, so I'll report what happens just in case anybody is interested, since there is so little info on the web about this drive I can hardly believe it.

Wish me luck 🙂.
 
OK let me continue my monologue:

I installed both drives and both seem to work just fine. So far I have burnt 2 Verbatim DVD+R 4x, and 1 MMORE DVD-R 4x all at 4x speed. One was data DVD, and the other two were video DVDs (one + and one -). All work fine in the LG, but none of the videoDVDs work in my Sony DVD player. Its an old and outdated model, so I guess thats the problem. I'll try it in a newer model in a couple of days and I'll let you know.

Gotta try to check the quality, but kprobe is supposed to be only for the Lite-On drives, so any suggestions would be very wellcome.
 
Time for another update:

Both video DVD-R and video DVD+R that didn't work in SONY DVD player worked fine in a newer Elta DVD Player.

But what bothers me is that when I recorded a DivX film (700MB) on a CDR it took a whole 7 minutes to complete and another 5 to check. This is very slow. I used 24x speed, and and at that speed it shouldn't take more than 5 minutes to burn and 3 to check.

When I was checking the recorded data DVD with Neros built in check feature it took a whoping 21.5 minutes to check it, which I think is WAY to long.

So for now, it looks like it records DVDs just fine, but has problems just about everywhere else. I must admit I'm not too happy about this. No wonder there aren't any reviews, because I'm sure LG doesn't want anyone to do a review of such a drive.

Still waitnig for anyone alse to comment though. Is this drive even available in the US?
 
Looks like I'll be setting a new world record in the most posts in a row 🙂

In case anybody is interested (probably not) it seems I was A bit too harsh on LG in my previos post. The CDR I was burnig was a low quality one (I knew that but my old TEAC24x still wrote on it at full speed - no problem, just the checking was a problem, since it had some weird cuts which caused CRC errors)and LG obviously noticed that and reduced the speed. I suppose thats not all that bad.

When I burned some other CDR media it completed the writing of 700MB of data in 5 minutes (expected for 24x speed), which isn' the best ever, but is OK for me. The checking part againt took 5 minutes, which is 2 minutes too long, but I can live with that for the few CDR I'll be recording.

So I guess I'll be keeping my Pioneer DVD which I'll use for reading, whereas LG will be for burning. Now I just need to figure out how to change the bit setting 🙂.
 
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