The Plextor DVD burner drive was the only one in our test that had a SATA interface rather than an IDE for connection to the motherboard. Such a decision is both correct and timely, since there are still only a few drives using it. Switching to SATA frees up the IDE interface for other devices and, due to the small cable size, requires less volume inside the PC case, which improves ventilation conditions.
So, an exclusive DVD drive from Plextor. During testing, it was revealed that its main advantage is the recording speed of double-layer DVD+R; it reaches values that are not comparable with the parameters of the discs presented to us for testing. — 3.59x. This means that when working with drives of this type, the drive turns out to be “smarter” than the media. It should also be noted the high performance when reading DVD+R and DVD-R 16x.
At high speeds, the drive vibrates noticeably and is quite noisy. The main problem of the drive was writing to a CD-R; it was able to perform it at an average speed of only 16.10x. P finally. Let’s remember the traditionally high price of Plextor PX-716SA – it is 2.5 or more times higher than its analogues
