Opti Drive Control is a program for testing optical drives and media.
Key features
  • Support for CD, DVD and BD drives/media
  • Read / write transfer rate
  • Create test disc / verify function
  • Detailed drive information
  • Detailed disc information
  • Disc quality tests: BLER, PI/PO, C1/C2, Jitter (*)
  • FE / TE test (*)
  • Erase / format
  • Overburning
  • Multi-test
  • Enhanced save functions
  • CSV export of graphs
    • (*) not all drives support these functions
   13 September 2009 TOP   

Opti Drive Control 1.41 released.

Changes:
  • - Bug fix: Disc Quality: jitter was not reported with certain LiteOn drives
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   9 September 2009 TOP   

Opti Drive Control 1.40 released!

Changes:
  • Added Extra Tests
    • Funnel seek, random seek, random transfer / seek, transfer inner, middle and outer, layer change time
    • Spinup, spindown, eject, load and recognition time


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   28 July 2009 TOP   

Opti Drive Control 1.30 released!

Changes:
  • Added Focus Error (FE), Tracking Error (TE) test for BenQ, Plextor and LiteOn drives
  • Added function to load and display Opti Drive Control and ImgBurn performance information files
  • Added function to show temperature and laser current with Pioneer drives
  • Disc Quality: added support for Pioneer drives
  • Transfer Rate: speed is set before running the test
  • Create Disc: added option to change buffer level update frequency
  • Bug fixes and small improvements


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   23 July 2009 TOP   

Updated FAQ with a detailed list of supported drives.

A major update of Opti Drive Control will be released this week!

   12 June 2009 TOP   

Opti Drive Control 1.22 released!

Changes:
  • Disc quality: added option to set the jitter scan speed for LiteOn drives
  • Bug fixes and small improvements
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   9 June 2009 TOP   

Opti Drive Control 1.21 released!

Changes:
  • Disc quality: added jitter reporting for Plextor drives
  • Bug fixes and small improvements
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   6 June 2009 TOP   

Opti Drive Control 1.20 released!

Changes:
  • Disc quality: added support for BD scanning with LiteOn BD-ROM drives
  • Disc quality: added option to skip jitter scanning with LiteOn drives
  • Drive info: improved detection of BD features
  • Drive info: improved detection of DVD region control
  • Improved read speed detection
  • Bug fixes and small improvements
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   29 May 2009 TOP   

Opti Drive Control 1.10 released!

Changes:
  • Added themes and customizable graph colors
  • Disc Quality, CD Bler: added option to set Y-scale to a fixed value
  • Bug fixes and small improvements
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   19 May 2009 TOP   

New program released!

Opti Drive Control is a test and benchmark utility for optical drives. It can be used to verify the performance, quality and reliability of the burn and read functions of optical drives and discs. Test results can be saved as a HTML report and the graphs can be exported to CSV which allows for detailed analysis with spreadsheets.
With the multi-test feature all functions can be run and saved without user intervention.

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Copyright (c) 2009 by Erik Deppe