LG GSA-H10A Super Multi DVD Burner Review

The LG GSA-H10A supports DVD+R Double Layer at 8x and DVD-R Dual Layer at 4x for writing discs with a size of around 8.5 GB.

First up is Verbatim DVD+R Double Layer 8x

This Verbatim media is made by Mitsubishi Kagaku Media and is supported at 8x write speed. Thanks to Verbatim USA for sending us this media.

The LG GSA-H10A had trouble creating a smooth burn graph. However the result is good and the transfer curve shows no problems reading this one back.

This Maxell media is manufactured by Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation and is supported at 6x write speed. Thanks to Maxell America for sending us this media.

This is a very good result. The transfer curve shows no problems reading this disc.

This media is made by RiTEK Corporation and is supported at 2.4x write speed. Thanks to Memorex for sending us this media.

This is not a good result producing a very large PIF count on the second layer. However the transfer curve shows no read back problems.

DVD-R DL

As mentioned earlier, the LG GSA-H10A supports the DVD-R DL standard at 4x.

Let’s find the manufacturer and media information too, for this we will use CD-DVD Speed:

This Verbatim media is manufactured by Mitsubishi Kagaku Media and is supported at 4x write speed. Thanks to Verbatim USA for sending us this media.

Another great result with Verbatim media. The read back shows no problems.

Summary: The LG GSA-H10A produces good quality burns on the Mitsubishi based DVD±R DL media.

Standalone DVD-Player compatibility:

We have 3 standalone DVD-Players available to test the DVD+R DL medias (Book Type: DVD-ROM) and the DVD-R DL media (Book Type: DVD-R):

• Panasonic DVD-F87
• Toshiba SD-3750
• Samsung DVD-P4

Compatibility results: 

All DVD Standalone devices played the LG GSA-H10A burned DVD+R DL media. But only one DVD Standalone device would play the LG GSA-H10A burned DVD-R DL media without any problems.

We would like to mention, that the compatibility issue with standalone DVD Players/Recorders and the DVD-R DL media format is caused by incompatibilities with the standalone devices used in this review, and not the LG GSA-H10A or media format used.

Summary: Although all the discs were readable in our scanning and read-back test drives. We would like to see some improvement in write quality.

Before we round off this review, let us run the drive through some advanced tests at next page.