Hi everyone, 2 weeks ago, I got the LG GP96Y (GP96YB70) External Slim CD/DVD drive. This drive is marketed as a Multi-OS drive with compatibility with Android and compatible TV’s. One thing that some LG drives have is that they can mount a disk as a FAT32 filesystem, allowing browsing the disc on systems that do not officially support disc drives. What I did not know is that when an Audio CD is inserted, it can mount it and show…
Hi everyone, Today, we will be seeing an old product from Gear Head. It is an External Slim DVD Drive, model 8XDVDEXT. This drive is able to burn CD’s at a maximum speed of 24X, DVD+/-R(W) at up to 8x, DVD+/-R DL at up to 6x and DVD-RAM (Now discontinued) at up to 5x. This product has already been used a while back, but I just found it recently while cleaning. I no longer have the Nero 9 disc, but…
Hi everyone, As a long-time user of Tidal, I’ve been enjoying the app for my music listening sessions, except that it did not support MQA (Tidal Masters) bitstreaming to USB DACs. This meant that the audio always got resampled to either 48Khz at first, and then to 192Khz in later versions. Up until several weeks ago, this was the case. We were forced to use third-party apps like USB Audio Player Pro or the Hiby Music app which added MQA…
Hi everyone, Today, I finally got the LG GP96 drive delivered to me. It was ordered some 3 weeks ago but you know, Amazon’s shipping to US territories is the worst, taking weeks to ship them just to have them ship them with UPS 2-day Air service. So yeah, it was shipped on the 10th of August and I got it today, when the initial order was made on July 22nd. Nevertheless, today, I finally got it and I can…
Hi everyone, Today, we’ll take a look at how the PlexDisc DVD+R discs burns in the LiteOn (PLDS) DU-8A5LH. This drive was taken temporarily out of a Dell laptop and is a 9.5mm drive: We will be using ImgBurn to perform the writing and verification. It reports the media code to be OPTODISC-R16-00 and supports writing at up to 8x here. This drive seem to not support setting up the DVD+R Book Type manually but it seems it does it…
Hi everyone, Today, we will see how well the Pioneer BDR-2212 can burn the SpeedX BD-R DL 50GB Discs at a speed of 4x: This drive can burn these discs at up to 8x but we will focus burning it at 4x this time: The burning process was successful: Data verification was also successful: Here’s how the disc surface look after burning it: The surface looks smooth and identical to the 6x and 8x burns. Quality Scans We’ll see how…
Hi everyone, Today, we will see how well the Pioneer BDR-2212 can burn the SpeedX BD-R DL 50GB Discs at a speed of 6x: This drive can burn these discs at up to 8x but we will focus burning it at 6x this time: The burning process was successful: Data verification was also successful: Here’s how the disc surface look after burning it: The surface looks smooth and identical to the 8x burn. Quality Scans We’ll see how well this…
Hi everyone, Today, we will see how well the Pioneer BDR-2212 can burn the SpeedX BD-R DL 50GB Discs: This drive can burn these discs at up to 8x. We will be burning it at that speed: The burning process was successful: Data verification was also successful: Here’s how the disc surface look after burning it: The surface looks smooth altough with the usual dark part of these discs. Quality Scans We’ll see how well this disc burned in this…
Hi everyone, Today, we will be seeing a replacement fan from Rangale for the Lenovo Y510p laptop. This is my 3nd replacement fan as 2 has already failed previously: The last replacement fan actually lasted a whole year, which at least was something. I’m not sure how long the new one will last, but we’ll see since it’s a different brand than the last 2. This fan also comes in a nice branded box, unlike the generic past one. The…
Hi everyone, Today, I’m going to show you the UGREEN 2.5-inch HDD and SSD to USB 3.0 Enclosure. This is a Hard Disk Drive and Solid State Drive enclosure. It converts from SATA to USB 3.0. This is the standard USB model. UGREEN also has a USB-C version of this enclosure that I tested 2 years ago. The packaging is small and straightforward. UGREEN always make some environmental friendly packages for their products: We see the enclosure as soon as…