[DennisOlof]

Asking in this thread because I have a BDR-XD08 drive. It was on firmware 1.02 and I did burn discs to test it out. The quality tests in this thread seems nice if you have the right media.

I had to use a old computer to run Opti Drive Control in order to check my CDs and DVDs. It has a Pioneer DVR-117L IDE drive and the disc scan did not indicate that the quality was good. I wanted better quality burns.

I am wondering if that old hardware could have an impact on reading the media, I also found information in this forum that you should test reading it back at 2x when checking disc quality. Something I did not do so I am going to redo the scans. It did surprise me that the Verbatim DVD-R discs did not indicate higher quality. The disc I burned at 2x was much better compared to the burn at 6x.

For best quality with a slim drive like XD08 should you always burn as slow as possible ?

Will an AC adapter have any impact on the results when burning a disc ?

I have also tested older Verbatim DVD-R discs that I know are like 15 years old by now and they read good and is of great quality. But they where all burned on Pioneer DVR-106 up to DVR-117 devices, 5.25 units in computers with IDE or SATA connection.

At the moment I can not test BD-R but I did burn a old Traxdata BD-RW at 2x and did copy it back in a old BDR-206 drive. No problems but this is a RW disc.