Today we take a look at the first drive of the Sony NEC Optiarc joint venture, the AD-7170A. The 18x DVD burner has been tested in terms of writing quality using the testing equipment from DaTARIUS. Find out which media suits to your AD-7170A v1.02 here. The drive offers the fastest available DVD recording speeds of 18x for SL and 8X for DL media, together with a high CD recording speed of 48x. It also supports DVD-RAM, with the impressive recording speef of 12x.

CDRInfo today presents the writing quality tests of the drive with various media brands. The discs were measured with proffessional equipment by DaTARIUS, in an effort to assure reliability and consisteny of the results, using an industry-standard testing platform.

Take some time and see how your AD-7170A v1.02 behaves with various media here.

The complete review will be published in the following days. Stay tuned.