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.

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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