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I've never had a problem with burn speeds being an issue. Some people report better results by burning at slower speeds, so you may just need to test what works for you.

Just got the greeting from ImgBurn start up quoting Shut Up-a You Face. It's a not so bad! It's a nice a place! Ah, shut up-a you face! Dr. Demento introduced me to that song.

Had a chance to test a DVD Video Verbatim MCC DataLife Plus DVD-R burned in the Asus with a playback test on the Playstation 3. No playback problems encountered. No skips, pixelation, hisses, or pops. Although the disc wasn't written all the way to the outer edge, so that's something that might need further testing.

Yeah, about the only conversion you could do to ISO is to, as LUK said, mount the BIN/MDS in a virtual drive application and use ImgBurn to read the virtual drive to ISO format. You can't convert BIN to MP4 because MP4 is a video file format. You could convert the video files/contents in the BIN to MP4 with various applications.

After I posted, I wondered if maybe it was a micro cable. I checked out USB 3.0 cables on Amazon.com to see if they were the same shapes as USB 2.0 cables because of the different sized cables with the WD drives.

Yes, the socket is blue on the back. So, it may just be the cable, as I postulated earlier. The only other USB 3.0 cables I have to compare it against are my 2 WD USB 3.0 HDD's. They have blue connectors at the end that connect to the PC, but their connectors that connect to the back of the HDD's are different shaped than the USB connection on the back of the Asus. So, I'm guessing WD is using proprietary cables for their drives. Another cheap ass move. If you cable goes out, you have to replace the entire drive just to get a cable. Planned obsolescence in motion. Anyway, I'm going to try replacing the cable and see if Asus did its own cheap ass maneuver.

Actually, I didn't think about this until now, but it may be this drive IS a USB 3.0 and they just included a USB 2.0 cable to be cheap. So, I'm going to get a USB 3.0 A To B cable and test and see if the drive really is USB 3.0. If not, I can always use an extra USB 3.0 cable lying around. I won't be able to get that cable until Thursday, probably.

Discovered one down side to this drive. Despite it being advertised as a USB 3.0 drive, it is actually only USB 2.0. I 13:33:44 -> Drive 6 - Info: ASUS BW-12D1S-U E401 (D:) (USB 2.0) The cable included does not have a blue tipped end on it, indicative of USB 3.0. When plugged into a blue ended USB 3.0 port on the front of my PC, ImgBurn returns that it's only USB 2.0. So, this drive is only USB 2.0, despite being advertised as USB 3.0.

But don't get the Verbatim you find in brick and mortar stores. They will usually be CMC Magnetics, a source of many common causes of errors we see on these forums. You'll need to get the DataLife Plus variety you find at places like Amazon.com in the US.

Had a chance to test a 4x RiData Ritek CPPM DVD-RW. Destination Media Type: DVD-RW (Disc ID: RITEKW04) Image burn and verify successful.

Had to chance to test RITEK 6x DVD-RW with the Asus. My first failure, but I expected it. I 11:02:36 Erasing Disc... W 11:04:20 Potential 'WaitImmediateIO' Deferred Error - (99%, 0/2) - Unknown (Internal Target Failure) (ASC: 0x44, ASCQ: 0x4B) E 11:04:20 Failed to Erase Disc! - Reason: Unknown (Internal Target Failure) (ASC: 0x44, ASCQ: 0x4B) E 11:04:20 Operation Failed! - Duration: 00:01:43 Never got a failure to erase error on this media before, but I've only ever encountered ONE manufacturer whose drives will accept Media Type: DVD-RW (Disc ID: RITEKW06) and that's LiteOn. Every other drive has always written successfully to the media but fails on Verify. This drive wouldn't even complete an Erase on the media.

Had the chance to perform a write test with Verbatim MKM DataLife Plus DVD+R DL for DVD Video. Burn and Verify completed successfully. For reasons I can't explain easily right here, I won't be able to perform a playback test on this disc right away. I don't know when I'll be able to, but I can perform a read test of the DVD Video contents to see if they process correctly. That's not a sure fire test because there can be playback issues on how the media itself is burned that a PC read test won't catch. But, it's better than nothing. Disc contents read to an image file in ImgBurn successfully. Video contents processed successfully.

The Asus drive performed the full format of the genuine Verbatim BD-RE DL fine. No write test performed to it, though.

Found two things with the drive, one I don't like and the other is liveable. The first is I had to use the drive in vertical mode because of a priority of desk space. With the drive in that position, you have to carefully position discs in the tray before closing it. Otherwise, the discs will fall out and onto the floor. The second is it doesn't support a particular BD-RE format command, but neither do my Pioneer drives. I forget the command, but it is issued by an ImgBurn BD-RE format. It performs some kind of verification on the disc so it doubles the time necessary for a format command. It can be viewed as either a plus or a minus, depending. So, you will get these in the log on either this Asus or the Pioneer drive: I 15:10:21 Erasing Disc... W 15:10:21 FormatDisc(FT: 0x31, FST: 0x02) Not Supported! W 15:10:21 FormatDisc(FT: 0x31, FST: 0x03) Not Supported! I 15:11:13 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:00:51

Had a chance to test Verbatim DataLife Plus MKM DVD-R in the Asus. Wrote a data DVD, so there's still the need to write a DVD Video DVD-R to play test someday. Anyway, the disc burned and verified successfully so that test bodes well. Should have a chance to test DVD-R for DVD Video pretty soon.

Yeah, I wouldn't trust anything other than Verbatim MKM DataLife Plus DVD+R DL. Those appear to be some no name brand that Ricoh made for them. Unfortunately, you can only find the good Verbatims online. The kind of Verbatim DVD+R DL you find in brick and mortar stores is made by CMC Magnetics, the worst manufacturer of optical media out there. The vast majority of errors we see here on DVD+R DL's are fixed when people switch from cheaper DVD+R DL media to genuine Verbatim MKM DataLife Plus DVD+R DL.

I'd be most likely to blame the RICOH double layer media. Without the log, I can't tell if you used DVD+R DL or DVD-R DL. If you're using DVD+R DL, Verbatim MKM DataLife Plus is the only really reliable DVD+R DL media out there. I'm also a little worried about the part that says the Optimal Layer Break exceeds L0. That could be part of the problem. I don't even know if a DVD player would even play such a disc burnt that way.

It's not useless. I use it over all the other options. I've never come across any of those formats you mentioned except BIN, but VCD can support CUE files to load BIN. You do have to manually set it, though. I don't use Alcohol or Daemon Tools because I've found it can be rendered useless by some firewall software, like ZoneAlarm. It's various pass through supports don't load when the firewalls are running. Or maybe it was the other way around, I forget. Maybe it was the firewalls didn't work when when the virtual drives were installed. I think it was as I originally said, though. VCD probably can't open Alcohol image files because they are a proprietary format and have to be licensed. I don't think ImgBurn ever supported them for that reason.

That does seem to defeat the purpose of a simulation. It should either not Finalize media or allow an option for the user to disable it, like you said. Maybe a Simulation - No Finalize option.

I've never run the option, myself. I just guessed it wouldn't perform an actual write to media.

A simulation can save you wasting a write once disc or taking longer to burn a rewritable, which would also cost you one of the few rewrites you actually get on rewritables. However, sometimes, the simulation burn succeeds and yet the actual burn may still fail. So, your mileage may vary with this function.

Had a chance to perform a DVD Video test so I chose to test a 4x Office Depot Ritek DVD-RW. Disc erase completed. LeadIn Write completed successfully. Burning now at 4x. Burnt successfully. Verify completed successfully. Reading to image file. Read successful. Mounted image file successfully. Image contents verified in a separate application. So, good test there.

Up until Windows 10, I never had to reset Windows Update to get it to work.

Came across a test I hadn't thought of. Needed some Audio CD tracks ripped to MP3 so I used the Asus drive as the source. No problem ripping. MP3 I tested played fine.

Had a chance to test a data Blu-Ray to Verbatim DataLife Plus inkjet BD-R. Disc ID: VERBAT-IMe-000. Burn started okay. Will take about 10 minutes, currently at 5.5x at 7% in. Burn completed okay. Verify completed okay. Now reading created BD-R to an image file in the same drive. Approximate time: 10 minutes. Read to an image file okay. Performing verify on some of its contents in other programs. Image files mounted to virtual drive fine. Verifies completed successfully. So, another test down. Just leaves DVD+R DL, data and DVD Video, DVD-RW, Audio CD, and CD-RW tests.