Supported Formats and Speed
The LG GSA-H20L supports a wide range of DVD and CD formats. Apparently this is something special, since LG officially calls this rewriter a "Multi DVD/CD Rewriter". They even use a nice little "SuperMulti" logo on the drive's tray.



According to the box, it's pretty special that this rewriter supports all three major formats: DVD+R, DVD-R and DVD-RAM. So if this makes you all warm and tingly inside, you probably know what they are talking about. Anyway, here's a list of the supported formats and their supported read and write speeds (taken from the manual). I must say the 16x DVD±R write speed is most impressive:



Now I could bore you here with all kinds of speed tests I supposedly performed, but I won't. First and foremost because I didn't do any speed tests, and second because nobody really cares if the drive really reaches 16x or gets stuck at 14.7x while burning. Or that it slows down ever so slightly at the middle of a disk, except when it's a full moon or Friday the 13th. I burned a few disks with it. It was fast. I really wasn't paying attention if it took 7 or 8 minutes to burn a DVD. There, that should be enough information.

Seriously, the GSA-H20L's speed is the least interesting of its features. I honestly don't care if it takes a few minutes longer to burn a CD or DVD. Especially when the drive has a far more exciting feature: LightScribe!


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