AOpen DRW4410 (DVD+RW)

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Review: AOpen DRW4410 (IDE)
Reviewer: Dennis
Provided by: AOpen
Firmware: version 1.11
Manufactured: July 2003

As part of the Acer group AOpen manufactures a wide range of computer components. From motherboards to computer monitors and from graphic cards to communication solutions. A product group that AOpen is also active in is the optical storage group, which of course includes CD-ROM, CD-RW and DVDRW drives.

At the beginning of this year AOpen unveiled their first DVD recorder, the DVRW2412Pro, a 2.4x DVD+R recorder which was based on the Ricoh MP5125A DVD recorder. About six months later AOpen announced their second DVD recorder, the DRW4410. AOpen’s second DVD recorder also supports the DVD+R(W) recording format only and can write both DVD+R and DVD+RW media at 4x. The DVD recorder can of course also be used to write CD-R(W) media with and it can do so at 24x for CD-R and 10x for CD-RW.

Today, thanks to AOpen, we’ll be looking at the DRW4410 drive. Since the drive was released several months ago it will be interesting to see if, despite its age, it can keep up with today’s DVD recorders. Keep on reading to find out if this is the case!

Test Machine:

For the tests we’ll be using the following configuration:

Hardware:

Motherboard: GigaByte GA-7VAXP
Processor: AMD AthlonXP 2100+
RAM: 512MB (PC2700)
GFX: ASUS V8200 (GeForce 3 Ti200)
Hard Disks: DiamondMax 40+30GB (7200rpm)

System set-up:

The AOpen DVD recorder was hooked up as Master to the (onboard) secondary IDE-controller and identifies itself as “AOPEN DRW4410″. DMA (Direct Memory Access) and autorun were enabled for every device.

Used Software:

The Dutch Windows XP Professional (SP1) operating system is installed on our test machine. We’ll be using the following software to perform the various tests:

On the next page of our review we’ll take a look at the drive’s package, the drive itself and its specifications and features.

Package and Features

3 Comments

Ian@CDRLabs.com: Posts: 153; Posted on: 13 Oct 03 17:10

Did you use a pressed or CD-R disc for your DAE tests? The reason I'm asking is because I've seen a number of slow down problems with pressed discs. Part way through the session, the speed drops off for no reason. This is the same problem Ricoh's first and second gen drives had.

G@M3FR3@K: Posts: 10655; Posted on: 13 Oct 03 17:29

Hi Ian, I used a pressed CD for the DAE test (the advanced tests with Nero CD-DVD Speed were of course done with a CD-R disc). I always use the same discs for my reviews so because there were no problems I of course didn't do extra testing. I can check if there are read problems with other audio discs?

Ian@CDRLabs.com: Posts: 153; Posted on: 13 Oct 03 17:53

If you want. It didn't happen all the time either. Very sporadic. Some discs were worse than others too.

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