40x CD-RW Roundup Vol. 3

Review Pages

1. Introduction - CyQve4048
2. Introduction - Philips PCRW4012P
3. Data Reading Tests
4. CloneCD Reading Tests
5. DAE Tests
6. CDR Tests
7. Writing Quality of CyQve 4048
8. Writing Quality of Philips PCRW4012P
9. RW-Packet Writing Tests
10. Conclusion

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RW Writing Tests

We used Nero 5.5.8.2 for writing CDs at the maximum RW speed for all the tested drives. The CyberDrive CW078D comes first due to its increased re-writing speed (16x). The rest drives support 12x re-writing speed and CyQve 4048 ended first with 404secs. The Philips PCRW4012P follows by one second with 405secs.

- Packet Writing Tests

We used Ahead InCD v3.31 for the packet writing tests with the LiteOn HS-RW media. The formatted disc had 534mbs 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 Windows Explorer (we dragged and dropped) and we completed the test twice to eliminate any possible time measurement faults and user errors:

The best performance again comes from the CyberDrive. The CyQve 4048 gets the third place with 8.18X and the Philips PCRW4012P last with 7.07X. It seems that the Philips drive supports only 4-10X under packet writing mode. The CyQve 4048 also had had the lowered average reading speed of 5.82X under packet writing mode.