
Unfortunately, BDXL and DVD-RAM write support is absent, the CD support tops out at 40x but in general, it’s a pretty good spec. On paper, their brochure fully specifies the drive’s capabilities. It was definitely faster than all the models I have owned, and in some ways, unimaginably fast when we considered 6x and 8x to be technically challenging merely a few years ago. There weren’t many options, but I heard good things about Pioneer burners, so I decided to spring for one at my local MSY with no idea what I was going to get.Īs it turns out, they were selling the Pioneer BDR-209DBK 16x model, which appears to be an OEM model (no software, manual, screws, cable or box) but for a relatively reasonable price of AU$85. After all, the feedback I received when I put out the CMCMAG-BA5 article was that Lite-On drives weren’t good burners, and I knew that my LG GGW-H20L was a bit dated and its media support was beginning to be limiting. Being one of the few that insist on retaining an optical media drive, I couldn’t resist picking myself up a new Blu-ray burner. A while back, I decided to build myself a new rig on the account of many random failures.
