Plextor PX-880SA

Plextor PX-880SA Review

If you’re the type of shopper who insists on buying the absolute fastest components for your computer, you’ll be interested to know that Plextor’s PX-880SA DVD burner boasts a 24x DVD+/-R burn speed. That means it’s capable of writing data to DVD+R and DVD-R media at a blistering rate of 31.68 MB/sec (24 times faster than the very first DVD burners). But if you’re the type of shopper who insists on getting the best value for your money, you’ll be interested to know that the most widely available blank DVD+R media is rated for write speeds of just 21.12 MB/sec (16 times faster than first-generation burners). What’s even more intriguing is that when we compared Plextor’s new drive to a competitor’s 22x drive, we found the supposedly slower product to be faster at burning to 16x media. Performance isn’t the only measure of a DVD burner’s value; it’s also important to consider the drive’s feature set, and the PX-880SA has plenty to offer on that front. In addition to burning single-layer DVD media at 24x speeds, this drive can also record data to dual-layer DVD and DVD-RAM media at up to 12x speeds.