While InfoTool gives us a quick glance at the MRX-525G's features, DVDINFOpro provides a little more information on some of the drive's reading and writing capabilities. The drive's region can be changed five times and after that it cannot be changed anymore.While a patched RPC-1 firmware is available for the LG GSA-H22N, there isn't one for the MRX-525G yet. This means that the drive's region is stored in the firmware. InfoTool also shows that the MRX-525G is an RPC-2 DVD drive. InfoTool had no problems detecting the MRX-525G's maximum reading and writing speeds, recording modes, buffer underrun protection and 2MB buffer. This program queries the drive to see what its reading and writing capabilities are.

Here is a screen shot from Nero's InfoTool. This means that Memorex's new drive is capable of backing up titles protected by SafeDisc 2, including version 2.51. Using Alex Noe's Weak Sector Utility we were able to determine that the MRX-525G is a 'two sheep' burner. When testing the drive's capacity I found that the drive was able to overburn up to 93:58with CompUSA's 99 minute CD-R media. According to Nero, the drive can also write CD-Text and overburn. This buffer is backed up by some form of buffer underrun protection as well. The Nero screenshot also shows that the MRX-525G has a maximum CD writing speed of 48x and a 2048KB buffer. Most of the specs below have been taken from Memorex's website and the guide that came with the drive.īy looking at the picture below, you can see that Memorex's new DVD writer is identified as a 'Memorex DVD+-RAM 525G V1'. The connector on the far left is the digital audio output. Next to the jumper block is the analog audio connector. By default the drive's jumper position is set to master. Starting from the left of the IDE connection you'll see the jumper switch for master, slave and cable select. By looking at the picture below you can see the drive's IDE interface, power connector and analog audio output connector. The rear of the MRX-525G looks very similar to some of the other LG based DVD writers we've reviewed. Instead of lighting up blue like on Memorex's previous DVD writers, it is the standard green color. Along with the large 'Memorex' logo, you can see a few for Ultra Speed CD-RW media and theDVD+ReWritable and DVD Multi specifications.īelow the tray you can see the MRX-525G's single LED. As you can see, the MRX-525G also has its share of logos.

While both drives are almost physically identical, Memorex has tried to set theirs apart by giving it a black and silver bezel. The MRX-525G is based on LG's new 18x 'Super-Multi' drive, the GSA-H22N. At the time of this review, this is the only official firmware available for the MRX-525G. The drive that Memorex sent us for this review was manufactured in December of 2006 and had firmware version G.01.

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