{"id":9241,"date":"2006-10-09T07:24:04","date_gmt":"2006-10-09T07:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9241"},"modified":"2006-10-09T07:24:04","modified_gmt":"2006-10-09T07:24:04","slug":"how-to-unlock-the-hidden-potential-of-the-mac-pro-superdrive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9241","title":{"rendered":"How-To: Unlock the Hidden Potential of the Mac Pro SuperDrive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the French site Hardmac, they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hardmac.com\/articles\/62\/page2\/\" target=\"new\">discovered<\/a> that the Sony-branded DVD\/CD SuperDrive in the Mac Pro is not Sony at all, but rather, the NEC ND-4570 drive. A search on that drive showed that some of the specs for the ND-4570 were superior to those that Apple claims for the &#8220;Sony&#8221; SuperDrive (e.g. 32x CD-R on the Sony&#8221;drive vs. 48x on the NEC). The drive also supports DVD-RAM and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DVD-R_DL\" target=\"new\">DVD-R DL<\/a>, two formats that aren&#8217;t even mentioned in the Apple\/Sony stats. To unlock these features, you have to flash the firmware on the drive, which can brick it if you screw it up, but it looks fairly straight-forward, if you&#8217;re up to the risk.<\/p>\n<p> [Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tuaw.com\/\" target=\"new\">TUAW<\/a>] <br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digg.com\/submit\"><br \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/img\/badges\/91x17-digg-button-alt.gif\" width=\"91\" height=\"17\" alt=\"Digg!\"\/><br \/> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the French site Hardmac, they discovered that the Sony-branded DVD\/CD SuperDrive in the Mac Pro is not Sony at all, but rather, the NEC ND-4570 drive. A search on that drive showed that some of the specs for the ND-4570 were superior to those that Apple claims for the &#8220;Sony&#8221; SuperDrive (e.g. 32x CD-R &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9241\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How-To: Unlock the Hidden Potential of the Mac Pro SuperDrive&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}