LG GSA-4082B DVD Writer Review

By Ian Bell July 4, 2004

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“A standard DVD-/+RW disc holds about seven times more data than a regular 650MB CD-R, and DVD-/+RW’s are rewriteable like regular CD-R/RW’s. The LG GSA-4082B drive PCstats is testing in this review tackles CD-R/RW and DVD-/+RW media as well as DVD-RAM discs. The LG GSA-4082B can write DVD-/+R media at 8X, DVD-/+RW media at 4x, DVD-RAM at 3x and read DVD’s at 12x. For standard CD media, the drive can burn CD-R’s at 24x, CD-RW’s at 16x and read CD’s at 32x. The drive has a 2MB cache as well as BURN proof technology. Essentially, with this one drive, all of your recordable optical media requirements are covered in one sweep.”

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