Popular Drives Analysis

Chapter 3 - Popular drives analysis

Using the database we will focus now on some important drives. We selected them either by their popularity or their quality.

Here is the chart of the top 20 drives sorted by usage, with the successful completion rate in the right column.

	UnitString	Manufacturer	Uses	ratio
1	HL-DT-STDVDRAM GSA-4163B	LG	238079	96,1
2	_NEC    DVD_RW ND-3500AG	NEC	99654	95,1
3	_NEC    DVD_RW ND-3520A	NEC	83224	96,1
4	PIONEER DVD-RW  DVR-109	Pioneer	78410	90,1
5	LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1633S	Lite-On	77066	92,2
6	TSSTcorpCD/DVDW TS-H552B	Samsung	71676	89,6
7	PIONEER DVD-RW  DVR-108	Pioneer	69484	91,6
8	TSSTcorpCD/DVDW TS-H552U	Samsung	60160	91,3
9	_NEC    DVD_RW ND-3540A	NEC	59472	96,5
10	PLEXTOR DVDR   PX-716A	Plextor	58941	96,2
11	_NEC    DVD_RW ND-2500A	NEC	56927	96
12	HL-DT-STDVDRAM GSA-4120B	LG	56823	91,8
13	HL-DT-STDVDRAM GSA-4160B	LG	54491	94,3
14	HL-DT-STDVDRAM GSA-4082B	LG	44737	91,9
15	BENQ    DVD DD DW1620	BenQ	44533	94,1
16	LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1673S	Lite-On	41360	92,5
17	_NEC    DVD_RW ND-1300A	NEC	39233	90,5
18	_NEC    DVD_RW ND-2510A	NEC	38915	95,2
19	PIONEER DVD-RW  DVR-107D	Pioneer	38395	87,7
20	SONY    DVD RW DRU-710A	Sony	37923	90,5

It's no surprise to see LG leading the chart with a very popular drive (even if it's not their most recent model). NEC and LG place several drives in the chart, while the most used (and not the best quality one) SONY drive is only at the 20th position.

The average success rate in the database is 92.5%, so this lets you define what is a good or a bad drive. When the drive is over this value, it means the overall performance (regardless of the media) is quite good. When the success rate is around 90% or below, you can seriously consider the drive to be very sensitive about media used or the drive itself is not very good.

On the quality point of view, LG and NEC (for the most recent drives such as 25xx, 35xx, and 45xx models) the results are very good. Plextor and its popular PX-716 is also in a good position. Samsung, Pioneer and Sony are not impressing.

If we don't care about the popularity of a drive (some drives are too recent and can't be in the top positions with a database running since more than 6 months). Please consider also these drives:

Plextor PX-740: 97,5%
Toshiba R5112: 97,5% BenQ 1640: 96,9%


VSO-Software presents first report about burners and media use
Chapter 1 - What is the most popular media format?
Chapter 2 - Hardware manufacturers
Chapter 3 - Popular drives analysis
How to know if you have a good or bad drive and media?

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