Data Reading Tests

- SCSI Mechanic v3.0x results

The CyberDrive CW078D gets the first place with 5383Kb/s. TDK CyClone 401248B follows with 5378Kb/s, Waitec STORM40 comes third with 5352Kb/s and Mitsumi CR-485C forth with 5280Kb/s. The LG GCE-8400B and Samsung SW-240B get the last two places since both support only 40x (max) reading speed. The LG GCE-8400B comes fifth with 4589Kb/s and Samsung SW-240B last with 4574Kb/s. Mitsumi CR-485C gets the first place in the "Random I/O" test with 930Kb/s, LG GCE-8400B second with 925Kb/s, WAITEC STORM40 third with 860Kb/s, TDK CyClone 401248B forth with 860Kb/s, Samsung SW-540B fifth with 782Kb/s and CyberDrive CW078D last with 725Kb/s.

- Pressed CD results: (Click to see graphs for CyberDrive, LG, WAITEC, Mitsumi, Samsung and TDK)

In the Nero CD Speed test, CyberDrive come first with 36.77X, TDK CyClone 401248B follows with 36.72X, WAITEC Storm40 third with 36.66X , Mitsumi CR-485C forth with 36.17X, LG GCE-8400B fifth with 31.43X and Samsung SW-240B last with 31.32X.

In the same test, the seek time results are very interesting. CD Speed reported very low results with the Mitsumi CR-485C, which we are not so sure they are correct. Mitsumi gives 100ms for access time. The Samsung SW-240B has seek times down to 89ms, TDK CyClone follows with 90ms, LG GCE-8400B comes third with 90ms, CyberDrive CW078D forth with 114ms and WAITEC Storm40 last with 115ms.

- CDR Media: (Click to see graphs for CyberDrive, LG, WAITEC, Mitsumi, Samsung and TDK)

With CDR media, the TDK drive comes first with 37.54X, WAITEC STORM40 comes second with 37.43X, CyberDrive CW078D third with 37.41X. The Mitsumi CR-485C lowers its maximum reading speed down to 40X with CD-R media. The Samsung SW-240B comes forth with 31.99X, LG GCE-8400B fifth 31.81X and Mitsumi CR-485C last with 31.16X.

- HS-RW media: (Click to see graphs for CyberDrive, LG, WAITEC, Mitsumi, Samsung and TDK)

For the RW tests we used the Mitsubishi Chemical HS-RW written at 10x. The faster reader comes from TDK with 32.27X: