In order to keep pace with the rest of its competitors, Gigabyte has widened its product range in a bid to position itself as a total IT product provider on a global scale.
Quote from the review at Hardware Zone:
“The main purpose of a consumer forking out a large portion of their savings for this product is to be able to write on both DVD- and DVD+ medias. The drive is clearly capable of writing both formats alright, but the rather disappointing write time of 28 mins 4 secs at 2.4x for a DVD+RW hindered us from awarding it a perfect score. The timing is just not comfortable enough to be accepted for a drive that proclaims a 2.4x DVD+RW write speed. Hopefully future releases of firmware for this product might improve the drive’s DVD+RW writing efficiency.”
