Optiarc AD-7240S DVD burner review

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Liggy
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Article posted 27 May 09 00:20

Introduction

 Review: Optiarc AD-7240S Reviewed by: Liggy Provided by: Sony Optiarc Europe GmbH Firmware: 1.01 Manufactured: February 2009
Sony Optiarc was kind enough to send us the AD-7240S for review. In this review we will be seeing how this drive performs in our tests. The Optiarc AD-7240S is the first drive to support 24x writing on DVD±R. Besides this it supports 8x/6x writing on DVD+RW/-RW, and 12x DVD±R-DL. The Optiarc AD-7240S also supports DVD-RAM reading and writing at 12x speed.

Company Information

Optiarc started as a joint-venture with Sony and NEC but since December 2008, Optiarc is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony and the AD-7240S is the first half-height DVD burner that was released by Optiarc since then.

Drive Specifications

The drive

Now it’s time to take a look at the drive. It was shipped as a bulk version without further accessories.

Drive front The bezel of the Optiarc AD-7240S is nicely styled. We can also see a few logos, an emergency eject hole, a single green LED and an eject button.

Drive top

Drive bottom

On the bottom of the drive we found one label and we can see the drive was manufactured in China during February 2009.

On the rear of the drive we can see the SATA power and data connector.

The left and the right side of the drive are rather unspectacular. Now let’s head on to the next page where we can take a look at the features of the drive….

8 Comments

cobra5107
Posts: 1
Posted on: 05 Jun 09 18:00
:g very pleased and i must say i always try to buy this make optiarc
Bob
Posts: 17882
Posted on: 17 Jul 09 13:05
The last Positive kind of wipes out the first Negative thanks to the reviewer :B
Bob
Posts: 17882
Posted on: 17 Jul 09 13:05
sorry for the double post. Not sure what happened
This message was edited at: 17-07-2009 13:08
Some Random Guy
Posts: 633
Posted on: 17 Jul 09 16:06
@bob If we had SL booktyping firmware for the 7241S or 7243S it'd wipe out BOTH negatives.
Bob_Collins
Posts: 67
Posted on: 28 Jul 09 01:59
It appears to me that this review has been changed from when I read it initially.

Initially when I read it I swear it stated that one negative was that the writing performance on some DL media could be improved, but now that statement is missing. Also, on the DAE page, it previously stated it did not cache, but had a screenshot showing caching as YES (or vice versa). Finally, on the bottom of the DVD-RAM page, it states "Now let’s head to the special features page where we will check out LightScribe and SmartErase….." neither of which are available on this drive.
Liggy
Posts: 7332
Posted on: 28 Jul 09 08:54
After publishing the review, the only changes that have been made were spelling mistakes.

I used a previous drive review (LiteOn iHAS422) as a template for my review and that's where Lightscribe and SmartErase come from. Looks like you are the first one who noticed this
Sonic2171
Posts: 75
Posted on: 29 Sep 09 12:56
For burning audio CD's some CD-R jitter figures would be nice for all writer reviews!
anikk
Posts: 515
Posted on: 01 Dec 09 01:13
I have an AD-7240S_1.03 myself of course. Great review, thanks a lot from me too! This drive is truly the best one. It and Win7 were the two products I watched closely to already own at day 1 of release this year. One of the best buys ever!

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