Hi everyone, Today, we will be seeing a result of QPxTool where I tested a Verbatim DVD+RW disc on the Dell DW316 DVD Burner. The Verbatim disc tested has a media ID of MKM-A02-000: The drive was able to burn the disc successfully at up to 4x. The burn took about 15 minutes and a half. Note that the drive performs online power calibration as it goes: After burning, I did a read test to confirm that the write was…
Hi everyone, Today, we will be seeing the Dell DW316 External Slim USB DVD Drive. This is an optical unit capable of reading and writing to various CD and DVD formats. The formats this unit is capable of reading includes CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-ROM, DVD+/-R, DVD+/- R DL, DVD+/-RW and DVD-RAM. It can also write to CD-R, CD-RW, DVD+/-R, DVD+/-R DL, DVD+/-RW and DVD-RAM. The drive is powered by USB and uses a Mini USB connector. Unboxing The drive comes…
Hi everyone, Today, we will see another SSD benchmark. This time, we are benchmarking the 250GB version of the Samsung 860 EVO SSD. This SSD is installed on a Dell Inspiron 15 3565 laptop in an attempt to speedup Windows. The Dell Inspiron 15 3565 laptop uses an AMD A6-9200 clocked at 2.00Gh. It came with a 500GB Hard Disk Drive. However, the choice of using a 250GB SSD was due to this laptop mostly being used for basic tasks…
Hi everyone, Today, we will see how to update the Dell Inspiron 15 3565 BIOS to version 1.11.0 or later to be able to install the latest Windows 10 releases. This laptop came with Windows 10 preinstalled, but there was an issue in the BIOS that came with it that caused the Windows update setup to fail and revert back. For this reason, we must update the machine BIOS to at least version 1.11.0 or later. This process is quick…