Final Thoughts

Advanced Features

The GBW-H10N supports booktype/bitsetting on DVD+R and DVD+R DL media. However, the settings are not persistent and are lost whenever the power is cycled or the drive is reset.

Conclusion:

Overall, the GBW-H10N is a very solid drive. It's quiet in operation and supports a whole range of media. Whilst Blu-ray media is still very expensive at the moment when compared to DVD, I don't think £10 for a 25GB BD-RE disc is all that bad - seeing as how they can be used again and again! I have to admit though, buying the BD-R media for the tests in this review was slightly painful on the old pocket! I for one certainly wouldn't be rushing to buy any more if the drive was mine to keep, I'd stick with the BD-RE discs ;-)

It's a bit of a shame that it's limited to such slow (by today's standards) CD burning speeds. However, if you're buying a Blu-ray drive, you've clearly outgrown CD's anyway so it's probably not an issue.

I was impressed by the write quality of the drive, it handled all the discs I could throw at it without any hesitation and never once did I hear it complain! Ok so it's burning 16x DVD media at 12x but it's only an extra minute or two of your life and hardly the end of the world. You've wasted far more than that reading this review ;-)

I would have liked to be able to test some other Blu-ray discs on the drive but SVP only had Verbatim ones - anyway, I was trying not to skint myself just doing 1 review!

Just as a reminder, this review only included a sample of the media tests I actually performed with this drive - you can find the others in the 'Drives and Media' section of the forum.

Anyway, If you're looking for a Blu-ray burner to buy, I can recommend this one. In fact, my only real gripe with it is that it's white/silver (with no extra bezels) and the rest of my drives are black!

Thanks:

SVP Communications - For providing the Blu-ray drive used in this review.