BenQ CRW4816A Reviews

The BenQ 4816A is a CD-ReWritable drive with a 48X read and write speed and a 16X rewrite speed. This corresponds to a rated speed of 7200 KBps while reading and writing on CD-ROMs, and a speed of 2400 KBps on rewritable media. Since the drive uses BenQ’s trademark Seamless Link technology there is no buffer under-run, which could severely affect the performance of the drive. The CD tray is quite stur-dy and comes out smoothly when the eject button is pressed. There is also a vol-ume control, play and skip button, and a headphone jack on the front panel. It also has an analogue, as well as a digital output connector at the back. The emergency eject hole allows you to unload the disk manually in the absence of power. The drive supports differ-ent writing modes such as Disc-at-once, Track-at-once, Multi-session, Packet writing and Raw writing. The CRW4816A was tested on a Pentium 4 2.8 GHz system with, Samsung 512 MB of RD RAM and an IBM Deskstar 40 GB hard disk drive. The drive performed reasonably
while reading and writing assorted data. The ISO and assorted write speeds are about 20 per cent less than the best drives with the same speed specifi-cations. The CD registration speed of 12 seconds is a long time, that needs to be improved upon. It took 259 seconds to burn a 650 MB
Audio CD, which means an average speed of about 2600 kbps. This recording time could have been better. The Nero average read speed of 37.4X is however comparable to the best. One CD-RW and one CD-R media are provided gratis with the drive, along with Nero Burning ROM. Bundled with this is an operating guide for Nero, a users guide and an audio cable for listening to
Audio CDs. Given the satisfactory per-formance, standard bundled accessories and reasonable
price tag. The BenQ is defi-nitely worth a look, if a slight compromise on performance is acceptable to you.
SPECIFICATIONS:
134 x 39 x 165 mm, 1 Kg, read speed 48X, write speed 48X, ReWrite 16X, E-IDE/ATAPI
interface, Seamless Link (buffer under-run proof), 2 MB buffer size, compatible with
Windows 95/98/ME/NT 4.0/ 2000/XP. Box Contents: Nero Burning ROM, Audio cable, 1 CD-R and 1 CD-RW medium, user manu-al, Nero operating guide...

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