Sony Optiarc DRX-S70U-W

Zitat: Positive: + Generally good/excellent DVD±R/RW writing quality. + Generally excellent CD-R writing quality. + Sleek and stylish design. + Excellent reading reliability. + Supports 8x/6x DVDRW/-RW writing speeds. + Excellent build quality. + Supports BitSetting (BookType DVD-ROM) on DVDR DL. + Good community support here at MyCE.com. + Good software bundle. + Small size and portable. + Read and writes to Mini DVD Recordable media. Negative: - DVD+R DL writing quality could be better. - DVD+RW writing quality could be improved. - Requires mains power to operate. - DVDVideo riplocked. - Let us summarise the most important positive and negative points below: The main positive points: The Sony DRX-S70U-W was able to burn all our tested CD-R media with excellent/very good quality.. The Sony DRX-S70U-W wrote our tested DVD+R/RW media with very good/excellent quality.The software bundle is also of a high standard and should provide all the essential tools for burning CD and DVD media.Reading performance and reliability was excellent.The Sony DRX-S70U-W is small and easily portable.Our retail drive was also supplied with Nero Essentials 8, and should be very capable of meeting most people’s media burning requirements.The Sony DRX-S70U-W is beautifully designed and has a very sleek look, and the build quality is excellent.The main negative points: There are not many negative things to say about the Sony DRX-S70U-W. The drive can’t function without a mains power supply. It would have been nice if the drive could have run via USB power. Writing quality on our tested DVD+RW and DVD+R DL media could be improved. DVD-Video riplock on a slimline drive, really doesn’t make a lot of sense, although Sony are following the guidelines laid down by the movie makers, so we shouldn’t really complain too much about this.To sum up, this is what we would say: “The Sony DRX-S70U-W is beautifully designed and reliable, it has a good feature set. It’s small, portable, and it performs very well”.