The company has upgraded the specifications of the DRW1008IM to 8x writing for both DVD+R/ DVD-R formats. The upcoming DRW1108IM also supports 4x DVD+RW/4x DVD-RW rewrite, while it is a 40x/24x/40x CD-RW burner.

Specifications:

- Interface: E-IDE/ATAPI , MMC compliant
- Disc data capacity (CD) 74min/650MB, 80min/700MB (DVD) 4.7GB
- Supported media for writing: DVD+R, DVD-R, DVD+RW, DVD-RW, CD-R, CD-RW
- Writing formats:
(DVD+/-R, DVD+/-RW) DVD-ROM, DVD-Video
(CD) CD-DA, CD-ROM, CD-ROM XA, CD-Extra, CD-I, Mixed-Mode CD, Video CD, PhotoCD, CD-TEXT, Bootable CD, CD-R, CD-RW, Multi-Session
- Writing methods:
Track at Once, Disc at Once, Session at Once, Multi-Session, Packet Writing (Variable & Fixed) , Multi-track Reservation
- Writing speed:
(DVD+/-R) 2x, 4x, 6x, 8x
(DVD+/-RW) 1x, 2x, 4x
(CD-R) 16x, 24x, 32x, 40x
(CD-RW) 4x, 10x, 16x, 24x
- Reading speed:
(DVD+/-R) max. 8x
(DVD+/-RW) max. 6x
(CD-R) max. 40x,
(CD-RW) max. 32x
(CD-ROM) max. 40x
(DVD-ROM) max. 12x
- Access time:
(DVD) 160 ms (12X)
(CD) 130 ms (40X)
- Data buffer 2MB