Acronova Nimbie NB12 Review

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System Features:

The specifications of the Acronova Nimbie NB12 were found here at www.acronova.com.

System specifications

What’s inside the box?

Let’s take a look at what comes with the System:

Full View

Side View with legs attached

Front push button panel

Rear View

Underside reject disc ejector

As we can see, the system contains everything you need to get started:

• Acronova Nimbie NB12
• Power Adaptor
• Detachable legs
• Extension rods
• Finish Disc bin
• Alignment pad
• Setup and Operation manual
• Internal hard drive

The internal hard drive is used for storing the image from your master disc, then the subsequent writes are from the hard drive directly to the blank media.

Next let’s take a look at our test machine and system requirements:

Test machine:

For this review we will be using this computer for quality scanning with the following configuration:

Hardware:

• Motherboard: Asus P5K Deluxe WI-FI/AP
• Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe @3.70 GHz
• Memory: 4x 2GB A-DATA PC2-6400 DDR2
• Video: ATI  2600HD Pro HDMI
• Display: Hanns·G HG-216DPO 21.6" 5ms Widescreen HDMI LCD
• Sound: SoundMAX Digital HD Audio (Onboard)
• Hard Disks: 2x 320GB – 1x 750GB Seagate SATA-II
• Operating System: Windows Vista Ultimate x64 SP1 is installed on this machine.

Set-up:

Now we will setup the Acronova Nimbie NB12 duplicator. The first thing we notice when opening the box is how well the duplicator was packaged, the sturdy preformed bubble wrap type used for packing provides outstanding protection for the unit in transit. Next we take out the duplicator and all the accessories, everything is individually wrapped and secure inside the box.

Now that we have everything out of the box we went ahead and attached the legs to give the unit some height, these detachable legs simply clip on and stayed firmly in place.

Legs installed

Opening the top of the unit we can see the Extension rods securely stored on the inside of the cover, the Extension rod insert, the Feeding Mechanism and the Pioneer DVR-116 CD/DVD Burner.

Internal View

With the Extension rods installed the Nimbie NB12 has the capacity to hold 100 blank discs.

Extension Rods installed

A Closer look at the Pioneer DVR-116 CD/DVD Burner.

Pioneer DVR-116 Burner

The Alignment pad below has two guide holes at the top that the legs of the unit fit in, as well as having a rubber backing like a mouse pad keep it securely in place. The Finish Disc Bin should look familiar as it’s an empty disc Spindle top. The discs exit the burner and slide right into the bin after being duplicated.

Alignment pad and Finish Disc Bin

Now we will take a closer look at the Nimbie NB12’s Control Panel Buttons and see how they function.

Control Panel Buttons

• High Button

Pressing the "HIGH" button will start the duplication process at the highest possible write speed supported by the media

• Safe Button

Pressing the "SAFE" button will start the duplication process at a safe speed.

• Function Button

Pressing the "FUNC" button will activate or deactivate disc verification during the duplication process

• Abort / Test Button

Pressing this button before starting the duplication will run a simulated Test run, pressing the button while the duplication process in running will abort the operation

Disc Verification:

Using Disc Verification is quite simple; while you have a Duplication job running you can simple press the "FUNC" key and then before the disc is ejected the data on the disc will be verified with the image stored on the internal hard disc drive. If the data is correct the disc will be moved to the finish disc bin, if errors exist the disc will eject to the bottom reject disc ejector.

On the next page we will take a closer look at the Disc Quality…