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Ohk, Let me know here. If you burn one.

Thank you for your tests and results. Did you tried burning BD-R DL? Video BD?

Thank you, Good to know.

Wow! Thats nice to know. All tests are passed. Good to know that I got a good drive. Thank you for all your tests and confirming.

Just Curious, there will be no hardware revisions for optical drives?

Good news. Hmmm! Strange! According make MKV forums 3.11 is an encrypted firmware. Not sure about change log.

In India, I can get LG WH16NS40 easily. I don't think so I can get Pioneer BDR-213. Will see how your test go on our present ASUS BW-16D1HT, if possible, I will test the same test case as yours which broke. Then I will go on with in search of new drive. I think getting another ASUS drive is also difficult now. As my friend remember this was the last drive from that shop. For now, I'm just waiting for your new drive to get delivered Please do update me. Thanks!

Agreed Then okay. What is the best drive at this point of time? If this drive is broken, I thought of buying another one and preserve it for long time.

Oh, that's Sad! Is New model of Blu-ray drive is coming or it's an end of Discs Era? Hopefully drive is good. I didn't find any problems with drive, yet. Nice that you are getting a drive soon. Is that new drive you are getting is 3.11 for sure? As we cannot the flash the drive.

Thank you 🙂

Thank you got it. How about BD-RE I mentioned in the above post?

I found half spindle of following discs in my closet, are they and good? Disc says Its Sony but MID says its Moser Baer, how this is even possible? ASUS BW-16D1HT 3.11 (RAID) Current Profile: DVD+R DL Disc Information: Status: Empty State of Last Session: Empty Erasable: No Free Sectors: 4,173,824 Free Space: 8,547,991,552 bytes Free Time: 927:32:74 (MM:SS:FF) Next Writable Address: 0 MID: MBIPG101-R10-65 Supported Read Speeds: 2x, 4x, 6x, 8x, 11x, 13x Current Read Speed: 5x - 13x, 13x - 5x Physical Format Information (ADIP - L0): Disc ID: MBIPG101-R10-65 Book Type: DVD+R DL Part Version: 1 Disc Size: 120 mm Maximum Read Rate: Not Specified Number of Layers: 2 Track Path: Opposite Track Path (OTP) Linear Density: 0.293 um/bit Track Density: 0.74 um/track First Physical Sector of Data Area: 196,608 Last Physical Sector of Data Area: 16,580,607 Last Physical Sector in Layer 0: 2,283,519 Physical Format Information (ADIP - L1): Disc ID: MBIPG101-R10-65 Book Type: DVD+R DL Part Version: 1 Disc Size: 120 mm Maximum Read Rate: Not Specified Number of Layers: 2 Track Path: Opposite Track Path (OTP) Linear Density: 0.293 um/bit Track Density: 0.74 um/track First Physical Sector of Data Area: 196,608 Last Physical Sector of Data Area: 16,580,607 Last Physical Sector in Layer 0: 2,283,519 Physical Format Information (Last Recorded - L0): Disc ID: MBIPG101-R10-65 Book Type: DVD+R DL Part Version: 1 Disc Size: 120 mm Maximum Read Rate: Not Specified Number of Layers: 2 Track Path: Opposite Track Path (OTP) Linear Density: 0.293 um/bit Track Density: 0.74 um/track First Physical Sector of Data Area: 196,608 Last Physical Sector of Data Area: 16,580,607 Last Physical Sector in Layer 0: 2,283,519 Physical Format Information (Last Recorded - L1): Disc ID: MBIPG101-R10-65 Book Type: DVD+R DL Part Version: 1 Disc Size: 120 mm Maximum Read Rate: Not Specified Number of Layers: 2 Track Path: Opposite Track Path (OTP) Linear Density: 0.293 um/bit Track Density: 0.74 um/track First Physical Sector of Data Area: 196,608 Last Physical Sector of Data Area: 16,580,607 Last Physical Sector in Layer 0: 2,283,519 Also, I'm not able to find BD-REs here. If it's available, then it's too expensive. I could get this Even though I'm not fan of Inkjet surface. https://www.amazon.in/Verbatim-Rewritable-Blueray-Original-Spindle/dp/B0056DUNLW/ Just looking for your opinion.

Oh, that's nice. Can't wait for your complete review. Can you please guess or confirm the following are MKM discs? https://www.amazon.in/Verbatim-8-5GB-Layer-Printable-64308/dp/B07R9PKXSX I don't like printable discs, but It's the only model available in stock. It's really hard to find the DVD+DL here.

Thank you. I will be looking out for your review.

Here is the log you asked for. Its Succes! I 01:30:02 ImgBurn Version 2.5.8.0 started! I 01:30:02 Microsoft Windows 8 Professional x64 Edition (6.2, Build 9200) I 01:30:02 Total Physical Memory: 16,600,288 KiB - Available: 6,788,132 KiB I 01:30:02 Initialising SPTI... I 01:30:02 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 01:30:02 -> Drive 1 - Info: ASUS BW-16D1HT 3.11 (H:) (RAID) I 01:30:02 -> Drive 2 - Info: ASUS DRW-24D3ST 1.01 (I:) (RAID) I 01:30:02 Found 1 DVD±RW/RAM and 1 BD-RE XL! I 01:32:49 Operation Started! I 01:32:49 Source File: F:\Ripped DVDs\The Batman (2022)\The Batman (2022) [DVD9].mds I 01:32:49 Source File Sectors: 3,869,472 (MODE1/2048) I 01:32:49 Source File Size: 7,924,678,656 bytes I 01:32:49 Source File Volume Identifier: The Batman (2022) I 01:32:49 Source File Volume Set Identifier: 579FBC50003B0B19 I 01:32:49 Source File Application Identifier: IMGBURN V2.5.8.0 - THE ULTIMATE IMAGE BURNER! I 01:32:49 Source File Implementation Identifier: ImgBurn I 01:32:49 Source File File System(s): ISO9660, UDF (1.02) I 01:32:49 Destination Device: [0:0:0] ASUS BW-16D1HT 3.11 (H:) (RAID) I 01:32:49 Destination Media Type: DVD+R DL (Disc ID: CMC MAG-D03-64) I 01:32:49 Destination Media Supported Write Speeds: 4x, 8x I 01:32:49 Destination Media Sectors: 4,173,824 I 01:32:50 Destination Media L0 Data Zone Capacity: 2,086,912 (Changeable: Yes) I 01:32:50 Write Mode: DVD I 01:32:50 Write Type: DAO I 01:32:50 Write Speed: MAX I 01:32:50 DVD+R DL Reserve Track: No I 01:32:50 Link Size: Auto I 01:32:50 Lock Volume: Yes I 01:32:50 Test Mode: No I 01:32:50 OPC: No I 01:32:50 BURN-Proof: Enabled I 01:32:53 Write Speed Successfully Set! - Effective: 11,080 KB/s (8x) I 01:32:53 Optimal L0 Data Zone Capacity: 1,991,792 I 01:32:53 Optimal L0 Data Zone Method: Copied From Original Disc I 01:32:53 Set L0 Data Zone Capacity Succeeded! I 01:32:53 L0 Data Zone Capacity - Effective: 1,991,792 I 01:32:53 Filling Buffer... (80 MiB) I 01:32:54 Writing LeadIn... I 01:33:24 Writing Session 1 of 1... (1 Track, LBA: 0 - 3869471) I 01:33:24 Writing Track 1 of 1... (MODE1/2048, LBA: 0 - 3869471) I 01:33:24 Writing Layer 0... (LBA: 0 - 1991791) I 01:41:31 Writing Layer 1... (LBA: 1991792 - 3869471) I 01:48:49 Synchronising Cache... I 01:48:50 Closing Track... I 01:48:52 Finalising Disc... I 01:50:12 Exporting Graph Data... I 01:50:12 Graph Data File: C:\Users\Manjunath\AppData\Roaming\ImgBurn\Graph Data Files\ASUS_BW-16D1HT_3.11_01-JANUARY-2024_01-32_AM_CMC_MAG-D03-64_MAX.ibg I 01:50:12 Export Successfully Completed! I 01:50:12 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:17:22 I 01:50:12 Average Write Rate: 8,375 KiB/s (6.2x) - Maximum Write Rate: 10,976 KiB/s (8.1x) I 01:50:12 Cycling Tray before Verify... W 01:50:20 Waiting for device to become ready... I 01:50:31 Device Ready! I 01:50:36 Operation Started! I 01:50:36 Source Device: [0:0:0] ASUS BW-16D1HT 3.11 (H:) (RAID) I 01:50:36 Source Media Type: DVD+R DL (Book Type: DVD-ROM) (Disc ID: CMC MAG-D03-64) I 01:50:36 Source Media Supported Read Speeds: 2x, 4x, 6x, 8x, 10x, 12x I 01:50:36 Source Media Supported Write Speeds: 4x I 01:50:36 Source Media Sectors: 3,869,472 (Track Path: OTP - L0: 1,991,792 - L1: 1,877,680) I 01:50:36 Source Media Size: 7,924,678,656 bytes I 01:50:36 Image File: F:\Ripped DVDs\The Batman (2022)\The Batman (2022) [DVD9].mds I 01:50:36 Image File Sectors: 3,869,472 (MODE1/2048) I 01:50:36 Image File Size: 7,924,678,656 bytes I 01:50:36 Image File Volume Identifier: The Batman (2022) I 01:50:36 Image File Volume Set Identifier: 579FBC50003B0B19 I 01:50:36 Image File Application Identifier: IMGBURN V2.5.8.0 - THE ULTIMATE IMAGE BURNER! I 01:50:36 Image File Implementation Identifier: ImgBurn I 01:50:36 Image File File System(s): ISO9660, UDF (1.02) I 01:50:36 Read Speed (Data/Audio): MAX / MAX I 01:50:37 Read Speed - Effective: 5x - 12x, 12x - 5x I 01:50:37 Verifying Session 1 of 1... (1 Track, LBA: 0 - 3869471) I 01:50:37 Verifying Track 1 of 1... (MODE1/2048, LBA: 0 - 3869471) I 01:50:37 Verifying Layer 0... (LBA: 0 - 1991791) I 01:56:24 Verifying Layer 1... (LBA: 1991792 - 3869471) I 02:01:42 Exporting Graph Data... I 02:01:42 Graph Data File: C:\Users\Manjunath\AppData\Roaming\ImgBurn\Graph Data Files\ASUS_BW-16D1HT_3.11_01-JANUARY-2024_01-32_AM_CMC_MAG-D03-64_MAX.ibg I 02:01:42 Export Successfully Completed! I 02:01:42 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:11:05 I 02:01:42 Average Verify Rate: 11,655 KiB/s (8.6x) - Maximum Verify Rate: 17,726 KiB/s (13.1x) I was so anxious for burning this disc. Both Drive and Disc I choose to burn was risky Please update me here, when you do the complete re-testing of this drive. Thank you for you and your team (If it exits) for still looking after imgburn App.