Hello, CDFreaks reviewed the Asus 1612BL DVD writer and concluded that it is a 3-sheep writer. As far as I am informed, this would be the very first time that a writer is able to write and read the sheep3.dat from the so called sheep test correctly. Can anyone confirm that? Would be THE safedisk killer! Tschens http://www.cdfreaks.com/reviews/Asus-DRW-1612BL-DVD-Burner-Review
USA Asus will be sending the new SATA 1614 in a couple of weeks, I will perform the sheep test as soon as I get the drive installed and give a short report here. In the review that you link to, Megadeath reports it as a "3 sheep burner" and knowing him as I do, I would take his word on it. You could go to the sub-forum at CDF and ask for more information. Megadeath is pretty quick to answer questions.
Yes, sorry. I did mean the 1814. This is the drive that Asus USA is sending to me for my next review: http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?modelmenu=1&model=1488&l1=6&l2=35&l3=0
Just finished up a review on the Memorex DVD+RAM 525GE external, based on the LG drive. Should have it published in a short time. I am looking forward to the Asus, it is their newest and a SATA.
Let me know if the drive is worth buying, I`m looking for 1 more sata burner as I have room for one more burner and would prefer a sata one so I dont need to buy another ide controller card.
Thanks guys, glad you enjoy reading the reviews. I am looking forward to the Asus burner, gonna be a fun one to do.
Ok, I just bought an ASUS 1612BL and checked it with the Sheep-test. As I already expected - it is no 3 sheep writer (at least in my system). But it obviously is the very first REAL SD 2.9 writer I got so far (many many drives that are classified as SD2.9 writers by CD freaks are definitley NO 2.9 writers!!). And it backed up Doom 3 (SD 3.20.022 on CD) which none of my LiteOn or Plextors (I checked 4 LiteOns and 1 Plex so far) ever did. Experiments are running, not finished yet (see attached pic). Tschens
