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Top 10 DVD Drives

Three dual-format (DVD-RW and DVD+RW) burners, from Memorex, Pioneer, and TDK, debut this month.

Edited by Melissa Perenson

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Pioneer DVR-A05 2MB Buffer (4x DVD-R, 2x DVD-RW, 16x CD-R, 8x CDR-RW) (Pioneer-DVRA05)

Alera Technologies ALERA DVD-R QUAD CRUISER EXT DVD RECORDER - DVD-R/DVD-RW (Alera Technologies-270105)

HP HP DVD 300i DVD+RW Drive - internal IDE (retail) (HP (Hewlett-Packard)-Q2108A)

Sony Sony DRU-510A

Pioneer Internal DVD?RW/CD-RW Drive (Pioneer-DVRA06USPK)

MEMOREX DVD+/-RW Dual-X1

Toshiba COMBO DRIVE CDRW/DVD IN KIT 16X10X40X12 POWERDVD CYBERLINK (Toshiba-TSDR5112BK010000)

Plextor CDRW/DVDRW Drive 40X10X16X4X2.4 ATAPI w/ Plextor Software CD (Plextor-PX504ASW)

Pacific Digital 4X Internal DVD+R/+RW Burner (Pacific Digital-U30166)

TDK 440N Indi DVD (TDK-AID+440)

Two dual-format newcomers place at the top of the chart, dethroning the reigning dual-format champ, Sony's DRU-510A. The third dual-format drive, Pioneer's DVR-A06, almost didn't make the cut; this model suffered from surprisingly slow performance on our rewritable DVD tests (both DVD+RW and DVD-RW) due to its bundled software's write-verification pass (which can't be disabled). Also this month, we see one drive--a single-format model--drop below the $200 mark: Pioneer's DVR-A05.

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