NU Combo
DBW-521 - Page 1
Nu
Technology Inc. was founded in May of 2003 by Quanta Computer and Quanta
Storage
Inc. Located in the center of Silicon Valley, the company produces a full
range of internal and external, half-height and slim optical storage
products,
including IDE CD/DVD ROMs, CD re-writers, CDRW plus DVD combo drives, and DVD
writers.
- Features
The
DBW-521 is a half-height internal CD-R/RW &
DVD-ROM drive, with IDE/ATAPI interface. The drive is able to write CD-R/RW
discs and can also perform as a regular DVD-ROM drive. The DBW-521 offers
16X speed DVD-ROM disc reading,
52X speed CD-R disc writing, 24X speed CD-RW disc writing and 52X speed CD-ROM
disc reading capabilities.
The
NU combo is a four in one device supporting CD-R / CD-RW / CD-ROM / DVD-ROM
and DVD-RAM media.
The
drive uses SuperLink Buffer Under Run technology to prevent buffer underrun
errors during the writing process.
- Specifications
| |
| Read
Speed |
DVD Family
DVD-ROM 16X |
| CD Family
CD-ROM 52X
|
| Write
Speed |
CD Family
Writing speed 52x
Re-writing speed 24x |
| Supported
Read Formats |
DVD Family
DVD-ROM(DVD-5, DVD-9, DVD-10, DVD-18),
Multi-Border DVD-R/DVD-RW, Multi-Session DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM |
| CD Family
CD-DA, CD-ROM, CD-ROM/XA, CD-I, Video CD,
Karaoke CD, Photo CD, Enhance CD, CD Plus,
CD Extra, i-trax CD, CD-Text, Mixed Mode CD-ROM, DVCD, CD-G,
Bootable CD, CD-R, and CD-RW
|
|
Writing mode |
CD Family
DAO(Disc at once), SAO(Session at once),
TAO(Track at once), Packet Writing,
Multi-Session, DAO-RAW Mode |
| Support
OS |
Windows 98SE/ Windows ME/ Windows
2000/ Windows XP |
| Dimension |
144.2 mm x 41.3 mm x 190.0 mm(cm) |
| Weight |
965g +10g (with Bezel) |
| Minimum Systems Requirements |
PIII700 CPU, 256 MB memory. |
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The front of the NU drive has a nice design, a little different from the
stock-standard design we have become used to. The drive is colored white
and on the loading tray are the supported writing/reading speeds,
the
DVD-ROM
logo and the CompactDisc logo. Also, as shown in the above picture, there
are the Stop/Eject and Play/Skip buttons, the orange NU logo, the
activity led indicator, a volume knob and a headphone jack.
- Retail package
The
retail package includes the NU IDE interface drive, mounting screws, an audio
cable and a CD-R 52X disc from NU.
For reading reference, the package includes a printed drive
installation guide in three languages and a Sonic RecordNow Guide.
NU seems to have payed a lot of attention on the software. The user will
find included on CD-ROM the following multi language programmes:
Sonic RecordNow for video and data recording
Sonic CinePlayer for DVD playback
Sonic DLA for packet
writing
Removing the screws and opening the drive's cover voids the drive's warranty.
For reference reasons, we post the following pictures.
- Installation
Our test PC was a 1.8 GHz P4 configured with 512Mb RAM, an 80GB 7200rpm hard
drive and Windows XP Professional SP1. The drive was connected to our test PC
and was identified as "CDRW/DVD DBW-521". All reading tests
were done with firmware vGX01.
The following pages include test results for the NU drive in comparison
with a well known combo drive from LiteOn, the SOHC-5232K
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