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PlexDisc DVD+R burned in the Pioneer DVR-XD09 External Optical Drive
Burning a Windows ISO to a DVD+R disc from PlexDisc using the Pioneer DVR-XD09 drive

Burning a Windows ISO to a DVD+R disc from PlexDisc using the Pioneer DVR-XD09 drive

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So, now that we have successfully downloaded the Windows UUP files, created the ISO image, and optionally patched the Windows 11 ISO, now it’s time to burn it to a DVD. While today most people prefer to make a bootable USB drive, burning the image to a DVD have the advantage of archiving it for later use, while a USB drive may be formatted later for additional use. I always prefer to burn the images to disc because they provide…

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Updating the Pioneer DVR-XD09 Firmware

Updating the Pioneer DVR-XD09 Firmware

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Hi everyone, Today, I’ll show you how to update the Pioneer DVR-XD09 firmware. This is important as firmware updates should improve the drive operation, including better reading and burning stability. This Pioneer DVR-XD09 drive came with the 1.02 firmware. The latest firmware available for this drive is 1.05. To download and update it, we first need to go to Pioneer’s optical drive firmware update download page. We will scroll down until we see the firmware file for our DVR-X09 drive….

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The Samsung SE-506 and the Pioneer DVR-XD09 also supports scanning discs

The Samsung SE-506 and the Pioneer DVR-XD09 also supports scanning discs

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Hi everyone, After playing around with the Samsung SE-506 drive as well as the Pioneer DVR-XD09, they can both scan discs. The Samsung SE-506 being a Blu-Ray drive, can also scan those discs. This is great because it’s probably one of the very few slim drives that supports such feature. Unfortunately, the Pioneer DVR-XD09 cannot scan double layer DVDs. It simply stops scanning at the layer break and reports a massive spike of errors at that segment. However, it works…

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The Pioneer DVR-XD09 External DVD Writer

The Pioneer DVR-XD09 External DVD Writer

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Hi everyone, Today, we will see the Pioneer DVR-XD09 optical drive: This is an External DVD Writer that can burn the following media: ImgBurn reports that the drive cannot read and burn DVD-RAM, but it also has an issue where it cannot retrieve the buffer size. It also states it does not support Layer Jump Recording which is used when burning double layer DVDs. The product overview page states it supports DVD-RAM, so maybe ImgBurn cannot retrieve this information properly….

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SpeedX BD-R DL 50GB on Pioneer BDR-2212
Burning a SpeedX BD-R DL 50GB Disc in the Pioneer BDR-2212 drive at 4x

Burning a SpeedX BD-R DL 50GB Disc in the Pioneer BDR-2212 drive at 4x

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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…

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SpeedX BD-R DL 50GB on Pioneer BDR-2212
Burning a SpeedX BD-R DL 50GB Disc in the Pioneer BDR-2212 drive at 6x

Burning a SpeedX BD-R DL 50GB Disc in the Pioneer BDR-2212 drive at 6x

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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…

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SpeedX BD-R DL 50GB on Pioneer BDR-2212
Burning a SpeedX BD-R DL 50GB Disc in the Pioneer BDR-2212 drive at 8x

Burning a SpeedX BD-R DL 50GB Disc in the Pioneer BDR-2212 drive at 8x

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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…

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ValueDisc BD-R 25GB Pioneer BDR-2212 2
Burning a ValueDisc 25GB Blu-Ray Disc in the Pioneer BDR-2212 drive – Part 3

Burning a ValueDisc 25GB Blu-Ray Disc in the Pioneer BDR-2212 drive – Part 3

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Hi everyone, In this post, we will see how well the Pioneer BDR-2212 drive can burn a ValueDisc 25GB BD-R disc at a speed of 4x. I used ImgBurn again to do the burn process: The disc was burned and verified successfully: Here is how the surface looks when burned at 4x in this drive: The surface, once again, looks very smooth. No rings are present in the disc, similar to the 6x and 12x burns. Quality Scan The disc…

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ValueDisc BD-R 25GB Pioneer BDR-2212 2
Burning a ValueDisc 25GB Blu-Ray Disc in the Pioneer BDR-2212 drive – Part 2

Burning a ValueDisc 25GB Blu-Ray Disc in the Pioneer BDR-2212 drive – Part 2

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Hi everyone, In this post, we will see how well the Pioneer BDR-2212 drive can burn a ValueDisc 25GB BD-R disc at a speed of 6x. This time, I used ImgBurn to initiate the burn: The disc was burned and verified successfully: Here is how the surface looks when burned at 6x in this drive: The surface looks very smooth. Overall, this drive seems to burn Blu-Ray discs with really smooth-looking surface. Quality Scan The disc scanned better than the…

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ValueDisc BD-R 25GB Pioneer BDR-2212 1
Burning a ValueDisc 25GB Blu-Ray Disc in the Pioneer BDR-2212 drive

Burning a ValueDisc 25GB Blu-Ray Disc in the Pioneer BDR-2212 drive

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Hi everyone, Today, we will be burning a ValueDisc BD-R disc in the Pioneer BDR-2212 drive: This drive is able to burn these discs at up to 12x. This will be the speed used on this post: Burning a disc in this drive at its maximum speed takes less than 12 minutes: Disc verification is successful: Overall, it takes less than 23 minutes to burn and verify a single disc at 12x. Here is the disc burned surface: Quality Scans…

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