Re: Poll about DVD drive behavior

[Dominique Dumont <dod@debian.org>]

On Wednesday, 15 January 2020 23:03:23 CET Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> > - HL-DT-ST_BD-RE_BH08LS20
> 
> The googled pictures resemble my GGW-H20L from 2008. Does it write BD-RE
> with 2.3x speed ?
> (At some time the LGs lost that extra speed of 10 MB/s versus 9 MB/s of the
> competitors.)

dvd+rw-mediainfo reports:
GET [CURRENT] CONFIGURATION:
 Mounted Media:         41h, BD-R SRM
 Current Write Speed:   8.0x4495=35964KB/s
 Write Speed #0:        8.0x4495=35964KB/s
 Write Speed #1:        6.0x4495=26973KB/s
 Write Speed #2:        4.0x4495=17982KB/s
 Write Speed #3:        2.0x4495=8991KB/s

Now, only the slowest write speed is somewhat reliable. That's why I bought 
the Asus

> > - ATAPI_iHOS104_3775504068_206021500
> 
> A BD-ROM drive. That's rare.

This is mounted in a HTPC, I don't need a writer in there. Back in 2011, this 
was less expensive than a BD writer.

All the best

Dod