BENQ DW 1640 DRIVER DOWNLOAD

As a result of trying to fix it, I found a very cheap packet of rubber belts from eBay and decided to give it a go. The best deals from Amazon's one-day storage sale Amazon slashed prices on some 20 items. Below is a screenshot of Nero Burning Rom's specs for the drive. In my search for belts, I found some listings on eBay for individual belts, but at fairly high prices but of an inappropriate dimension for this particular drive. The drive has survived being transported between a number of computers, and even survived a minature flood. Storage by Rick Broida Sep 17,

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The number of shorter belts seemed to be higher than the number of long belts. The quality scan features reported PIFs as sum8-values rather than sum1, thus could not be directly compared with the LiteOn or ECMA standard guidelines, although different drives did always vary with their opinions of the quality of discs.

But when it comes to writing, all bets are off, 16400 the actual result may not even work as drives struggle to finalize the disc or fail to maintain tracking towards the outer area. As the writing speed is increased, signal loss becomes the key cause for the significant decrease in writing quality.

Tech Flashback: BenQ DW1640 DVD±RW Drive Specialties

vw Storage by Rick Broida Sep 13, It does go without saying that in this case, being able to overburn this much also means handling overburning of regular 80 minute CD-Rs quite well.

There were other drives, including some combo drives and readers which had scanning ability.

Despite BenQ being a subsidiary brand of Acer, the DW was a big break from their normally rather unremarkable henq pedestrian peripherals. The BenQ, however, has always been a reliable writer of these types of marginal discs and has been quite a good reader as well in handling such odd media.

Fast, incredibly 16440 data storage -- with one missing piece Fast, incredibly portable data storage -- with one missing piece by Dong Ngo. The upper lid has the spindle clamp kept captive within it, as is common for PC drives.

This is an old archive page of HWZ prior to revamp. SA - Page 2 CD Recording Tests 9. This has been met for all discs.

In the case of my Philips Bluray player, none of these belts proved helpful. Click for more about me!

Tech Flashback: BenQ DW DVD±RW Drive Specialties | Gough's Tech Zone

It was then discovered that other drives with other chipsets also had this ability to differing degrees, including the BenQ DW CD Error Correction Tests 4. DVD Recording Tests Unfortunately, the quality of the belts did vary, with the belts being rather under-dimensioned for thickness, and some belts being thinner than others with occasional rough edges. Transfer Rate Reading Tests 3.

You can click on the mainboard picture for a higher resolution image: Lines and paragraphs break automatically. Proudly powered by WordPress. You will also find BenQ's Q-Suite, that offers four built-in functions: Dimensions W x H x D: These pushed the standards somewhat in regards to the pitch of the groove, allowing more data to squeeze into the same radius.

Samsung's Next Smartphone foray: This entry was posted in Computing and tagged computer storageoptical discoptical discsrepairteardown. Large drive for a low price Large drive for a low price by Dong Ngo. I suppose this write-up is my way of thanking the drive for years of trouble-free service. Environmental Parameters Min Operating Temperature. To do such quality scans requires third-party software. It is therefore natural that coming into the assessment of the DW, expectations are on the high side for the drive to follow the fine example set by its older award-winning siblings.

The most obvious when looking at the drive was their dual cooling system — the channels on the top of the lid are part of a system that helps funnel heat out of the drive while remaining somewhat dust resistant and quiet, all without the need of a dedicated cooling fan such as in early CD-recorders.