LG GSA-5120D DVD Writer
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LG GSA-5120D OEM:Hitachi-LG Chipset:Renesas |
40xCDR ZCLV 24xCDRW ZCLV 8xDVD-R ZCLV 4xDVD-RW CLV 12xDVD+R ZCLV 4xDVD+RW CLV 2.4xDVD+RDL CLV 5xDVD-RAM PCAV |
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$200 | 4.5/10 4 votes Read 5 comments (20990 views) Post comment |
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| I bought my LG GSA-5120D from TigerDirect on March05. It did well few DVD's, but after that it just stoped to read any disk. Comments posted by mardim from Canada, March 21, 2005. Rated this writer 2 of 10. |
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| I bought my LG GSA-5120D in Germany. I´m not happy with burning DL DVD´s.Burning an any other type of disc´s is very good, no errors yet. On DL DVD´s Nero Burning room shows an Error (fokus error )on writing the second Layer and that´s it... I could drop the disc each time wenn i make a burning on this type of disc.Is this an error of the Writer or problem with this kind of disc?? I used TRAXDATA DVD+R DL 2,4 x. Could anyone help me with some information, ideeas, something??? Thank, Tibi Comments posted by Tibi K from Romania, March 09, 2005. Rated this writer No rating. |
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| I bought my LG GSA-5120D from TigerDirect for $99 in Jan05. The drive was bundled with CyberLink PowerProducer and PowerDVD, NeroGold and INCD. I also visited the LG website to get the firmware updates(2 updates now available). I bought the drive so I could read DVD-RAM discs burned by my DVR E55. Prior to getting the firmware update, my laptop would sometimes have difficulty seeing the drive. I also found that I have to manually turn it off after the PC shuts down and back on prior to turning the PC on to make my system most stable. The firmware update seems to have fixed all the bugs. Comments posted by Jim from United States, February 24, 2005. Rated this writer 8 of 10. |
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| Just bought this from tigerdirect for $99 a couple of days ago. I've burned a few dvds with it, at first I thought it was a POS. Turns out that, DVDXCOPY does not work with this burner. Am using CloneDVD and it works fine, made like 5 DVD's with no problem. There is a new firmware available on LG's website that supposedly should help fix the problem mentioned by the other post. Only cons I see with this burner is that it's kinda noisy. Pros is that it also reads DVDRAM, and has ports for both USB2.0 AND Firewire! Comments posted by haplo from United States, January 20, 2005. Rated this writer 7 of 10. |
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| Bought this recorder in order to Burn DL media..... Tried every possible way to burn DL's.... Used Verbatim DVD+R DL 2.4x media.... It burns them ok but the discs either don't play or they freeze at the layer change (L0 - L1)..... I tried with nero, dvd decrypter and various programms.... LG MUST release a firmware Upgrade and get rid of the useless A104.... DON'T BUY IT unless new firmware come along.... Comments posted by Stelios from Greece, November 04, 2004. Rated this writer 1 of 10. |
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Column Explanation:  Click on this for
more technical information.New comments= New comments since your last visit. New Writer = New DVD Writer since your last vist. OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer. Chipset The manufacturer of the main chipset the DVD writer/recorder is based on. Write support / Read support DVD-R = Works DVD-R? = Not tested Single Layer(4.7GB) write speeds 1x (CLV) = about 58 minutes 2x (CLV) = about 29 minutes 2.4x (CLV) = about 24 minutes 4x (CLV) = about 14.5 minutes 6x (CLV/ZCLV) = about 10-12 minutes 8x (PCAV/ZCLV) = about 8-10 minutes 12x (PCAV/ZCLV) = about 6.5-7.5 minutes 16x (CAV/ZCLV) = about 6-7 minutes Dual/Double Layer(8.5GB) write speeds 1x CLV = about 105 minutes 2.4x CLV = about 44 minutes 4x CLV = about 27 minutes Single Layer (4.7GB) read speeds 1x read speed is 1.321MB/s = ~56 minutes 6x CAV (avg. ~4x) read speed is max 7.93MB/s = ~14 minutes 8x CAV (avg. ~6x) read speed is max 10.57MB/s = ~10 minutes 12x CAV (avg. ~8x) read speed is max 15.85MB/s = ~7 minutes 16x CAV (avg. ~12x) read speed is max 21.13MB/s = ~5 minutes DVD Write types CAV = Constant Angular Velocity, the DVD is written at a constantly increasing speed. CLV = Constant Linear Velocity, the DVD is written at a constant speed. ZCLV = Zone Constant Linear Velocity, the DVD is divided into zones. After each zone the write speed is increased. PCAV = Partial Constant Angular Velocity, the DVD is being written at an increasing speed until a certain speed. After this speed it will not increase anymore. Connection Desktop = Standalone desktop DVD Recorder EIDE = Computer DVD Writer with EIDE/IDE connection SCSI = Computer DVD Writer with SCSI connection USB = Computer desktop DVD Writer with USB 2.0 or/and 1.1 connection FireWire = Computer desktop DVD Writer with IEEE 1394/FireWire/i.Link connection (some standalone desktop dvd recorder supports this also but then it is usually to connect your DV camera to the recorder) Rating The first rating is based on a weighted rank (the true Bayesian), it requires at least 5 votes to get a weighted rating. The second rating between the ( ) is a normal average rating. |
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