Plextor PX-740A

by Purav Sanghani on August 2, 2005 12:05 AM EST

DVD-R Media

And now, some DVD-R media…

AN31

We received the same results for the + version of this media, looking like a successful write, but never being able to read back the disc completely. Does DVD media ever expire…after a year?

When we read back the disc in our 712A, only 12,523 PI errors were found, but a higher concentration just before the 4GB mark where the 740A gave up in reading the disc.

MCC 03RG20

Here, we go back to some high quality Verbatim media that took a successful write and helped the drive produce a successful read of the disc, finishing off at 16x write speeds. The PX-740A completed the write in 6:11.

16x -R - MCC 03RG20 Write

16x -R - MCC 03RG20 Read

16x -R - MCC 03RG20

And of course, reading back the disc was completely successful. The DW1640 performed exactly the same with very little read failures and none on the write side, probably because this is the same drive.

The screenshots of Nero’s CD-DVD Speed and Plextor’s Plextools can be downloaded here.

DVD+R Media DVD+/-RW Media
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  • ssvegeta1010 - Tuesday, August 2, 2005 - link

    I could swear I saw this a while ago... where did it go?
  • Hi - Tuesday, August 2, 2005 - link

    i saw it the other day too



    government coverup?
  • mariush - Wednesday, August 3, 2005 - link

    just a glitch in the matrix.. deja-vu :) sorry for off-topic ... couldn't help it..
  • dmxlite - Tuesday, August 2, 2005 - link

    Probably had some fixing up to do, cause they know we're picky about spelling and things like that.
  • Hi - Tuesday, August 2, 2005 - link

    after looking at them they actually added graphs and stuff, so i see why they took it back
  • jm20 - Sunday, July 31, 2005 - link

    Your missing the graph's on pages 4 through 7.
  • Stas - Sunday, July 31, 2005 - link

    I'm tired of AT mislabeling pages. This is like the 3rd time I see it happen in the last 3 months. :(
  • Quiksel - Tuesday, August 2, 2005 - link

    STFU

    I swear some of you on here are the most perfection-centered people I've ever seen. Give it a break.
  • andrep74 - Monday, August 8, 2005 - link

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitiona...">http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitiona...
  • andrep74 - Monday, August 8, 2005 - link

    Well, at least this is fixed, but how do I delete my own posts???

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