Benq 1625 Review

There is a review of the Benq 1625 drive. This is currently my favorite DVDRW drive.

So what were its most impressive features? Well, BenQ drives are speedy rippers since they do not have a rip lock. The ripping results were quite impressive. But in my opinion, the most impressive is certainly its load times. No other drive can load discs as fast as a majority of the BenQ drives I've personally used. They also are known for their overall excellent write quality. This was certainly no exception with the DW1625 and its write quality was quite good, particularly with DVD media.



Despite its excellent all-around performance, I simple could not get by its lack of next generation features. This is the only reason this drive failed to earn our highest recommendation and "Extreme Excellence Award". However, if they do once again pull through and release a firmware upgrade that will at least increase both its double layer write speed and DVD-R write speed, as well as improve its overall DVD media compatibility, it will certainly be a review I will revisit and has the potential of earning our highest recommendation. Regardless, BenQ has done well and continues to provide quality drives to the consumer market that certainly do impress. For this, it does earn our recommendation.