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Asus DRW-0402P/D Dual Format DVD burner
A dual format DVD burner from ASUS.
Price: £91
Manufacturer: Asus
Specifications:
Verdict
Overall: A reasonable burner for the price.
PC Magazine Team,
PC Magazine
04 Feb 2004
The latest product in Asus' lineup of optical drives is the dual format DRW-0402P/D internal DVD burner. As with the vast majority of optical drives it comes with a 2MB buffer and a quoted access time of 140ms for DVD-ROM. The drive writes DVD+R and -R discs at 4X speed and re-writes DVD+RW at 2.4X, while DVD-RW discs are burned at 2X. DVD-ROM performance is 12X while the CD-R/RW performance is a little on the slow side at 16X/10X/32X.
Bundled with the drive are just two pieces of media: a 4X DVD-R and a 52X CD-R. The burning software is a surprise, not the usual Nero suite, but Sonic's Record Now and Sonic DLA. You also get copies of Ulead Movie Factory and the Asus DVD player.
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