Review: Pioneer DVR-107 DVD-Writer Reviewer: OC-Freak Provided by: Pioneer Europe Firmware: 1.10 Manufactured: December 2003 |
Pioneer Europe
was kind enough to send us their latest DVD-Writer; The Pioneer DVR-107D. This
writer is a much anticipated drive and our expectations are very high. In this
review we will run the drive through several advanced tests, and try to test as
many aspects as possible.
We will also
thank our contact persons at Pioneer Europe for being very nice and helpful.
Whenever we had any questions they were always very helpful, thanks.
Also thanks to
Memorex for providing some of the media used in this review.
Some short
Pioneer information:
Pioneer is a
large and well-known company over the whole world and has since the 1930s been
providing quality products, so let us take a look at their product
history:
As we can see
they have been providing high tech, quality products for a long time. Pioneer,
as we know them now, has the following vision:
sound.vision.soul
Pioneer
group's sense of purpose
Everyone's
got soul. The never-ending challenge is to find better ways to feel it deeper
down inside. At Pioneer, 'Move the Heart and Touch the Soul" means more
than words can express. It's our mission to stir as many senses and
sensibilities as we can through the wonders of everlasting sound and
vision.
Since we are
pretty sure that almost everyone knows Pioneer, we do not think a longer company
presentation is needed and go directly to drive specifications.
Drive specifications:
These are the
specifications of this drive, found at the Pioneer Europe web page:
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Specification-wise it seems like a
very good drive, the only drawback seems to be that the CD-R Write speed is only
24x compared to 40x for most competitors.
In this review
we will try to find out how good it really performs by taking it through several
extensive tests.
Test machine:
For this
review we will be using a computer with the following configuration:
Hardware:
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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-8KNXP
with Intel i875P chipset.
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Processor: Intel Pentium 4 2,8GHz
800MHz FSB with Hyper Threading support.
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RAM: 1Gb PC3500
DDR
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GFX: ATI Radeon 9800
pro
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Sound: SB Audigy 2
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Hard disks: 2 x Seagate Barracuda
ATA IV 80Gb in RAID 0 on the i875P S-ATA RAID controller.
System
set-up:
The Pioneer
DVR-107D was connected as Secondary Master and identified itself as PIONEER
DVD-RW DVR-107D. DMA (Direct Memory Access) and autorun was
enabled for all devices.
Software:
Windows XP
professional is installed on the computer along with Service Pack 1 for windows
XP. We will be using the following software in this review:
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Ahead InCD v 4.1.5.7
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Ahead Nero Burning ROM version
6.3.0.3
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Ahead Nero CD/DVD Speed
v2.11.4
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Ahead Nero InfoTool v2.07
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Slysoft CloneCD v4.3.1.9
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Exact Audio Copy v0.95 prebeta
3
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K-Probe v1.1.28/1.1.29
Head on to
the next page and find out what's inside the
box…