Copyright
1996-2025
by TSW
(Nikolay Tuzhilin)
Last updated: 22.01.2025
Review
Tray moves fast and quietly, by the slightest touch. The drive itself is very quiet.
Original firmware version is RPC2 (that's bad here in Russia as half DVD movies you bought have region 5 and the rest region 1 and you will get your drive region locked after 5 changes), but with modified firmware provided on rpc1.org you can make this drive RPC1.
Writes CD-RW at fixed speeds, i.e. if CD-RW supports 8x-10x speeds drive will allow to write only at 10x, 1x-4x only at 4x. Disk quality test (by Nero) shows C2 errors average rate about 100 independent of speed you write or read it.
Video DVD (any media) have a very long recognition time. And I had some annoying problems (like movie file read error at 99%) with slightly scratched surface which old plain combo drive on notebook red without any hesitation.
After some investigation turned out that very long DVD recognition time takes place only on Windows XP, while on plain old Windows 98 it is fast enough. The reason as I think is in Macromedia Safedisc protection driver (secdrv.sys) which scans inserted CD/DVD content for its own reason. If it is disabled then Windows XP recognize DVD as fast as Windows 98. Additionally, disabling this driver allows to read some files on damaged disk, while it enabled the Windows tries to read all files and fails on bad file after many minutes preventing access to other files. Unfortunately you can not run copy protected with Safedisc game when secdrv.sys disabled, either enable it or look for "no cd" version of this game. In some cases to make disc readable you need to start then stop secdrv.sys, not disable it!
Drive does not support DVD overburn feature.
Disk statistics:
- Intenso CD-RW 4x-12x - drive do not like this disk, almost impossible to write them so that all files were readable!
- Verbatim CD-RW 8x-10x - very good results. It seems, drive likes only brand name and very dislikes noname.
- eProFormance DVD+RW 2.4x - fast reading, starting at 4x.
- Verbatim DVD+RW 4x - reading slower then DVD+RW 2.4x.
- Philips DVD+RW 4x - slow reading at beginning of the disk (1.5x).
Specifications
Beginning
June 2004 NEC introduces his first dual 8x DVD recording drive, that supports
besides 8x write speed for DVD-R and for DVD +R media and 4x write or rewrite
with DVD-RW and DVD +RW media as well the new functionality to write up to 8.5GB
on the new double layer DVD +R9 media.
ND-2510 comprises the most important 9 optical storage functions in 1 drive –
the ideal all in one optical device. This new model offers fast DVD recording
together with high speed CD recording and excellent read performance by using
NEC’s know how developing and producing highly reliable optical storage devices.
With the ND-2510A not only the user does not need to choose for one DVD format
or the other – he has the freedom to choose the DVD R media of his choice
without a compromise in performance or storage capacity: 1 hour DVD Video can be
record in less than 10 minutes. Whether consumer desires to share cost-efficient
home movies, music and/or private data by using write once discs, or like to
store any kind of digital data only for a certain period by using rewriteable
discs, the NEC ND-2510A is capable to store up to 8.5 GB onto one DVD disc (or
700 Mbyte on a CD disc).
The ND-2510A takes advantage of NEC’s “high resolution writing strategy” and of
an improved version of NEC’s “Active Optimized Power Control” (Active OPC, the
“high resolution writing strategy”. Besides, NEC supported its own developed
buffer underrun error prevention technology technology.
| Specifications | ND-2510A | MultiSpin 8x DVD± Writer (9 in 1) | ||||
| DVD | CD | |||||
| Transfer Rate read | 5…12x CAV (max. 16200 kByte/s) | 17…40x CAV (2550-6000 kByte/s) | ||||
| Transfer Rate write | -R | 2x,4x,6x,8x ZCLV (max. 11040 kByte/s) | 8x,16x,24x,32x ZCLV (max. 4800 kByte/s) | |||
| -RW | 1x,2x,4x CLV (max. 5520 kByte/s) | 4x,10x,16x CLV (max. 2400 kByte/s) | ||||
| +R | 2.4x,4x,6x,8x ZCLV (max. 11040 kByte/s) | |||||
| +R9 | 2.4x CLV (3300 kByte/s) | |||||
| +RW | 2.4x,4x CLV (max. 5520 kByte/s) | |||||
| Access Time | 140 ms | 120 ms | ||||
| Mechanism | Tray load mechanism supporting horizontal and vertical use | |||||
| Interface | IDE / ATAPI | |||||
| Burst transfer rate | PIO mode 4 / UltraDMA 33 (max. 33 MByte/s) | |||||
| Cache | 2 MByte | |||||
| Audio | Headphone jack and volume control at front plus digital-out and line-out at the back (MPC compatible) | |||||
| Media supported | DVD+R9, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-Video | CD-ROM, CD-ROMXA, CD-Audio, CD Extra, CD Text, CD-IReady, CD-Bridge, Photo-CD, VideoCD, Hybrid CD | ||||
| Writing methods | Random Access Writing (DVD±RW) Sequential Writing (DVD±R/DVD±RW) CD: DAO (disc at once), SAO (session at once), TAO (track at once) with zero gap, variable or fixed packet, multisession | |||||
| Compatibility | MPC Level 3, MultiRead, PC2001 | |||||
| Weight | 1,02 kg | |||||
| Dimensions | 148mm x 42mm x 190 mm | |||||
Firmware updates
2.16 (2.06)
New media list:
DVD+R9 (Double Layer): 2,4x Ricoh
DVD+R: 8x BeALL, 4x MPO 8x, 4x MBI 8x
DVD+RW: 4x OPTODISC, 4x SENTINEL, 4x NANYA, 4x MBI
DVD-R: 8x CMC, 8x TDK (NEW), 8x RITEK (G Type)
DVD-RW: 4x OPTODISC, 4x RiTEK, 2x DAXON, 2x PRODISC, 2x PRINCO
Also there will be improved DvD+R9 compatibility in cooperation with new release of Nero.
2.17 (2F8)
New medias:
DVD+R9 2,4x: RITEK, CMC, PHILIPS;
DVD+R 8x: MBI, OPTODISC, YUDEN, Mitsubishi, MAXELL, CMC, SONY, TDK, MAM-E
ADVANCED MEDIA; DVD+R 4x: MPO;
DVD-R 8x: RITEK (G Type), Gigastorage, OPTODISC, MBI, SONY, MCC, FUJI, MAM-E
ADVANCED MEDIA, TDK, Maxell, BEALL, YUDEN, PRODISC, CMC;
DVD-RW 4x: CMC, PRODISC
2.18 (2F9)
New medias:
DVD+R 8x: PROMEDIA, INTER MEDIA, Lead Data, INFODISC, Ricoh, PRODISC, RITEK,
BeALL, Infomedia, OPTODISC, NSD, UME DISC;
DVD+R 4x: MAM-E ADVANCED MEDIA, SAST;
DVD-R 8x: LG, DAXON, Lead Data, VANGUARD DISC, INTERMEDIA.