Asus Extreme Slim DVD-RW Drive Review (Model: ESEDRW-08-H)

1. Introduction2. Packaging and Bundle3. Asus Extreme Slim DVD-RW Drive4. The Software and Operation5. Closing Thoughts6. View All Pages

The drive is supplied with Cyberlink Power2Go 6 software on the optical disc and installation only takes a couple of minutes.

The Cyberlink interface is intuitive and nicely designed – the first icon allows for CD and DVD burning options.

The second icon is a disc imaging area for copy discs and for imaging and burning disc images.

The third icon is a utility area for erasing rewritable discs and for ripping audio to hard drive. Both very useful tools.

The drive supports all major DVD and CD formats and Cyberlink have incorporated a fair amount of advertising throughout the application to tempt people to buy Power2Go7, the latest version.

Asus have partnered with Cyberlink to give away the latest V7 for an upgrade price of around $30. Whether you need or want this is very much a personal decision, but we found V6 was more than capable for handling all our disc media.

The drive presented us with no issues during testing, we used 4x and 8x DVD discs and both were detected correctly. The software burned the discs fine and we managed to extract and burn audio discs without any problems. Verbatim, Sony, Maxell, TDK and Philips media all worked without a hitch.

One aspect of the drive we liked was the low noise levels, especially when burning and playing DVD discs. Only when burning CD's at 24 x was the unit audible and I personally always burn CD's at 8x to ensure total compatiblity with audio players.

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