The Industry Standard Utility for Recordable DVD Drives!
From ZDNet Reviews June 4, 2001
"Software Architect's program, is a versatile and easy-to-use tool that gets your cartridges ready for data. Just format the disc and you're off."
Five Stars - MacPower 2002 March Issue
"WriteDVD! is the strongly recommended product to buy for DVD-RAM users who use DVD-RAM drives and users with UDF formatted disks. WriteDVD! gives total support for DVD-RAM drives. WriteDVD! provides many functions such as setting partitions on DVD-RAM disks and FixDVD! can diagnose and repair UDF formatted disks. WriteDVD! is easy to use and very reliable."
Ratings: (out of 5 stars)
- Ease of Use: 5 stars
- Functions: 4.5 stars
- Cost vs Performance: 4.5 stars
Notice to Panasonic and Hitachi drive owners. They have discontinued support for NT. We suport NT and all media modes of their multi-drives.
WriteDVD!TM sets up, runs, tests & repairs recordable DVD drives and media for ongoing backup, archiving and general data for temporary storage and interchange. It contains the world's first and most widely used UDF file system based DVD utility for PC's.
WriteDVD! for MacTM now supports the new Panasonic and Hitachi DVD multi drives.
Operating Systems and Media Supported*:
| Media : OS |
98 |
ME |
2000 |
XP |
NT |
Mac |
| RAM |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes 8.6-9.2.2 |
| -R |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes OS 9.x |
| -RW |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes OS 9.x |
| +R |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes OS 9.x |
| +RW |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes OS 9.x |
*Support is dependant upon the drive itself supporting the particular media.
WriteDVD also supports writing to CD-RW media if supported by the drive.
If you only have a CD-RW drive (ie not a combination DVD/CD-RW drive), please see ourWriteCD-RW product
Protocals supported:
| Protocal:OS |
98 |
ME |
2000 |
XP |
NT |
Mac 8.x-9.x |
| ATAPI |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| SCSI |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Firewire(1) |
Yes(2) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No(3) |
Yes |
(1) See drive support list for Firewire Drives
(2) May require upgrade to Win98Second Edition
(3) Windows NT does not support any Firewire Drives.
Summary of Features:
- Supports more drives than any other software including Pioneers's A03/04 super drives and Panasonic's DVD-Burner.
- Supports Dual Processor PCs(Panasonic, Prassi, VOB and other software do not.)
- Easy to Use:"drive letter/drag and drop access":
There is no interface(unlike other applications!). WriteDVD!TM provides a drive letter access for "drag & drop" convenience.
- For Windows, two separate drive icons clearly differentiate between rewriteable and read only modes based on the type of disk placed in the drive. Other products format it as a Compact disk. This is critical when using other applications. For example, WriteDVD!TM is recommended by Dantz for its Retrospect back up product. See Retrospect-DVD knowledge base
- WriteDVD's Format UDF feature is the only software that allows DVD media to be formatted in UDF versions 1.0.2, 1.5, 2.0, or 2.0.1, or optional native FAT or HFS formats.
- Easily creates partitions, tests media for defects and write protects.
- Compatible disk interchange between Windows and Mac operating systems.
- Available is different languages: Eng, Fr, Gr, It, Jp and Sp
- Proven reliability - With over four years of technical collaboration with all DVD drive manufacturers and the most extensive installed base of PC users, WriteDVD! has proven itself in the labs and in the field. It is recommended by Microsoft and licensed by Hitachi, Panasonic, and Toshiba.
- Speed - SAI's third generation file system with built in caching is tuned to optimize performance. Unlike other software, WriteDVD!TM formats and operates in the background.
How does SAI do this?
For seamless, true drag and drop functionality, the file system and driver architectures need to be fully integrated. For over 14 years, SAI has been a pioneer and leader in developing file systems and driver utilities that support both block addressable and sequential recording media. We applied this knowledge to create a utility that lets DVD-RAM, -R/W, +R/W and CD-RW media be used like floppies.
The UDF format is the new international format standard for all types of storage devices because it provide compatibility between different computers and operating systems.
In addition, UDF is the ONLY way to ensure proper
use of high capacity disks. For example, Windows file system (FAT)
does not allow for larger than 2GB volumes in legacy operating systems
and only 4GB on newer ones. The OSTA UDF specification was designed for
high capacity and allows for 1 terabyte and above volume sizes in UDF.
WriteDVD!TM ensures compatibility between Mac
OS and Windows implementations of UDF formats. SAI strictly adheres to
the OSTA specifications for UDF (others do not) and continually tests
to ensure its formats are interchangable between operating systems. To
learn more about UDF click "here"
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