CDRinfo reviews Plextor PX-755SA fw 1.02 DVDRW drive
Recently, we reviewed the Plextor PX-755A with the first official firmware release. Now a new firmware, v1.02, is already available and it is a great opportunity to repeat some of the tests. For this reason, we requested from Plextor to provide us with the SATA version of the PX-755A drive, the PX-755SA. The drive is a typical Plextor drive, with all the well known functions enabled, including Q-Check. The drive supports all the max speeds found on most of the recent drives, while it supports up to 10X DVD+R DL writing speed.
Having said that, let us move on and have a look at the drive's main features and specifications.
AUTOSTRATEGY is a self-learning writing technology that determines the standard deviation of any blank disc and automatically optimizes the write strategy for unknown media, enabling high-quality disc recording. AUTOSTRATEGY technology is the culmination of five years of research and development by Taiyo Yuden, a leading Japanese supplier of quality CD and DVD recording media.
PlexEraser is a data destruction utility that makes a recorded CD-R or DVD disc unreadable. The drive will "re-record" over the Lead-in and data sectors of a write once disc rendering the disc data unusable. Initially this feature will support DVD+/-R and CD-R media. Firmware upgrades will add support for DVD+/-R DL media...
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