What the heck is a cw4802?

[diselman]

Bought a cendyne 48x12x48, thinking I was getting a lite-on but it says it is a drive model cw4802. What is it and are they worth keeping?
Thanks

[TheWizard]

It is an Optorite/AccessTek.

http://www.optorite.com/cw4802.htm

According to the product description, it can rewrite at 16X, so bonus for you! The drives are some of the cheapest out there, in terms of price, but so far, I have not heard any complaints about them. In a couple media compatability tests, this burner performed well with Taiyo Yuden and CMC blank discs.

http://www.cdrlabs.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=6005

[varosan]

i just bought the new cendyne 48x16x48 cw4802 and i know that it has the same model number as the OPTORITE but the design on the face plate does not look like a OPTORITE. Well anyway i test it and it's not that good of a burner. it's average writing speed is 34.64 and the audio extraction does not get past 43x. i guess it's a bargain at $20.00 if i get the rebate back.. the look of the design and quality reminds me of a BTC brand but when the computer starts up , it reads the drive as a "CENDYNE 481648AX"

[diselman]

I took it back and found one with a lite-on in it.
Thanks for all the info, thats what keeps us little fellows informed.

[TheWizard]

i just bought the new cendyne 48x16x48 cw4802 and i know that it has the same model number as the OPTORITE but the design on the face plate does not look like a OPTORITE.

CenDyne may have changed the face plate, just look at the face plate that TDK puts on their rebadged Lite-On drives.

[oxymoron]

to start off, this drive is ok, i think. it uses a Z-CLV for its burning method, so it gives the drive an average read speed of 34X. this drive is loud! when its burning, it sounds like some1 revving up their engine repeatedly... anyways, it starts of @ 22x, and climbs up to its max of 48x (some ppl claim this burner doesnt reach 48x... fools...) its 1/3 stroke on the box says 95ms but i have seen results as good as 88ms. CPU utilization is not steller, on the most part 1% @1x, 2% @ 2x, 8% @ 8x. for some reason, on the 1X test (cpu usage) drive was louder than 2x, 4x and 8x... anyways, this drive i thought was pretty good. o yeah, this drive uses CAV during reading. this drive might not be the best, but it gets the job done. i know this is highly unorganized, but who cares, just read it a few times...[/img]