NEC ND-3500A - DVD Writer

There are always so many choices for good optical drives. I’ve heard that the NEC DVD burner is pretty good for the price.

“Luckily, the ND-3500A arrived on the same day that I received a package of 16-speed DVD+R media from Verbatim. This meant that I could test the drive properly, rather than just assuming that it would be fast writing DVD+R discs. As it turned out though, the ND-3500A wasn’t any faster writing at 16-speed than the Plextor PX-712A was writing at 12-speed. In fact, burning 4.3GB of digital images at 16-speed took over a minute longer than it did on the Plextor at 12-speed.”

Recovered from an Internet Archive snapshot of the InsaneTek front page.