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Sony DRU-530A February 19th, 2004 | by Ian Bell

 In our CD and DVD+R tests, the DRU-530A trailed every so slightly behind the current speed champion, the Plextor PX-708A drive, but was able to beat out the Plextor in our packet writing and Audio CD writing tests as well as the DVD-R tests. In our Digital Audio Extraction tests, the DRU-530A was right on par with the HP DVD 400i drive which to be honest is not a good thing. But aside from the DAE tests, the DRU-530A proved to be a very fast drive. For complete benchmarking results please click on the performance tab and link located above and below this review.

System Configurations:

Windows XP Pro SP1; AMD Athlon 2400+; Abit AT7 MAX2 Motherboard; 1GB DDR SDRAM 333MHz; PNY Geforce FX 5600 w/256MB video adapter.