Pacific Digital U-30201 DVD±RW recorder - Page 14

Conclusion

A lot of what applied for its twin brother, the LiteOn LDW-811s, can also be said of the Pacific Digital drive although in the main it did not seem to perform quite as well in the areas of jitter and quality. We make this comparison since the Pacific Digital and LiteOn drives are practically the same drive.

Like the LiteOn drive, it wasn't the fastest CD reader and there were some slowish seek times when compared to the Optorite DD0401 which was the third drive used as a comparison during the reading tests. Interestingly enough, while there wasn't much between it and the LiteOn drive, in the main it managed to produce slightly faster seek times. It also provided very good audio error correction capabilities.

Unfortunately, it did not manage to achieve the same performance as the LiteOn LDW-811S when it came to DAE, however it's speed was satisfactory. In any case, it appears to be a good CD writer achieving times similar to those of the LiteOn. It also supports overburning up to 99 minutes, backups of protected audio CDs and SafeDisc protection scheme (except v2.9).

As a DVD reader it performed quite satisfactorily, with a very good drive-to-hard disk ripping time. In the DVD error correction tests it performed very well and in the main can be regarded as a good reader. DVD writing times were also good and here to it can be regarded as a fast DVD recorder, there not being much between it and the other two drives in the comparison (LiteOn and Optorite DD0401).

The drive has an attractive price tag, being somewhere in the vicinity of $160.

Written and Edited by

Constantin Kioulafas