RW Writing Tests

We used Nero 5.0.4.8 for writing CDs at the maximum RW speed for all the tested drives. The Acer CRW1208A supports 8x RW writing speed. All other drives wrote at 10x RW writing speed:

The Acer CRW1208A had the highest writing time since the drive supports only 8x. All other drive support 10x RW writing so the direct comparison is a bit unfair. The CPU Usage again was very high compared to the competition and the erase time was the lower among the 4 drives.

- Packet Writing Tests:
We used Ahead InCD v2.09 for all Packet Writing tests. The drive is packaged with v1.69 and we suggest upgrading to the latest one. We used Plextor HS-RW media and we formatted it. The formatting of the media takes around 7min. After formatting, we tested all four drives for their packet writing performance.

The formatted disc had 530mbs of free space. We copied a 403 MB file (403.147 kbs) from a Hard Disk (on the same PC as the writers) to the formatted RW media-using explorer (we dragged and dropped) we completed the test twice to eliminate possible time measurement faults and user errors:

The results show that the Acer CRW1208A has the lower reading/writing performance among the 4 drives. I guess you could predict that due to lower RW writing speed. The "Average write speed" was 5.76x and the "Average read speed" was a bit higher at 5.96x.