GH22LS50 (retail) Expert Reviews

If you read our disc-ripping challenge on page 62, then you already know that LG's GH22LS30 22x SATA drive is a slowpoke at copying video discs. But if that's not an activity that interests you, this drive offsets the shortcoming with other talents. ...

Good overall performance with data reads and writes

Bad performance ripping video discs

The two drives were close performers when reading and writing dual-layer discs, as well-when the content was data, that is. The GH22LS30 wrote 7.96GB of data to disc in 13:54 versus the SH-S223's 13:13. And LG's drive took 11:46 to read the data disc ...

Black LG IDE DVD Writer, 2MB Cache, DVD+/-R 22X, DVD+R DL 16X, DVD-RAM 12X, CD-R 48X, CD-RW 32X.. ...