NEC ND-3500A 4x DVD-dual layer burner reviewed

We have a few of these NEC ND-3500A DVD recorders around Engadget HQ and have found them to be highly reliable for the almighty backup. This burner can do 16x recording on DVD+R or DVD-R media, which some other drives already do, but it can also burn DVD+R Dual Layer discs at 4x, meaning 8GB of data can be burned in roughly 25 minutes. TrustedReviews was quite fond of this multi-purpose drive, but the real bonus is that it comes in at under $100, which is a pretty amazing deal, any way you figure it.

[Via DigitalMediaThoughts]

[Alex Montano @ Dec 19th 2005 1:47AM]

For the price tag being under 100 and burning 8 gigs in 25 min thats a hell of a deal. now how about hte actual dual layer discs?? are they worth buying rather thatn to single layer discs??? what do you think

[Dan Wu @ Dec 19th 2005 1:47AM]

Unfortunately, DVD DL discs are still around $10 a pop, still not worth it IMO...