ND3500A

[gsingh19]

Does anybody have this drive? Is it any good? Is bitsetting available on this drive?

[Captain315]

Great drive with bitsetting. Great selection of hacked firware available also.

[gsingh19]

where do i get this hacked firmware?

[Captain315]

http://www.micheldeboer.nl/firmware/

[dap]

I've had this drive for three weeks and it is the best one I have ever had. Bittsetting, riplock and Hacked firmware galore. You won't go wrong with this drive.

[anubis13]

Got this drive for my new system.
very nice results. excelent drive for the cash

[chas0039]

I have burned a couple of hundred Ritek G05s, Prodisc S03s, Ricoh W11, and Ritek R03s and they all are very good burns (R03s are only good). I have yet to see a coaster and I would buy another drive in a minute.

[samijubal]

I've burned around 1000 discs and haven't had a coaster yet, Prodisc S03 discs.

[B2D327]

The NEC 3500 is the vessel with which God himself speaks.
300+ burns and not a coaster in the lot.

[TRex23]

I have this drive. I purchased it from Newegg in September.

Question: Can I upgrade the firmware to the latest version 2.18? I have 2.16 on it now.

I downloaded the firmware upgrade but I temporarily held off doing the upgrade because the text file that came with it said that it wouldn't work for OEM drives or external drives.

I bought mine as a bare drive from Newegg and installed it in a Bytecc USB 2.0 enclosure. I have it plugged into the PC via USB.

Does this mean I can't upgrade the firmware either because it's an OEM drive (not sure) or because I have it hooked to the PC via an external enclosure?

Any help will be appreciated.

[samijubal]

What is the difference in the new firmware? I'm using the old 2.16 on an OEM drive, it works fine.

[TRex23]

I'm not sure of the difference, but I think the newest firmware may allow you to burn at higher speeds. I burned my first dvd last night and it seemed to take forever.

[handyguy]

FW always comes with notes. thee new FW, 2.18 just has more media codes in it, won't change anything else or so they said.

https://www.videohelp.com/dvdwriters

[coeng73]

Forgive my lack of knowledge with advanced features of DVD burners, but what exactly are bittsetting and riplock?

And why would you use hacked firmware?

[handyguy]

riplock = limits speed you can rip a disk.

If you don't know about these things, its really not important.