Acer 2010 IDE CDR-W - Page 7

RW Writing Tests

We used Nero 5.5.2.4 for writing CDs in maximum RW writing speed for all the tested drives in 10x HS-RW media. All drive support fully the HS-RW writing standard:

The Acer 2010 came second in our re-writing tests, behind Yamaha 2200E. The drive needs exact 483secs to finisn the task and the Ricoh MP7200/9200 2 more. The CPU Usage is also increased (17%) and the erase time is superb (only 32secs).

- Packet Writing Tests:
We used Ahead InCD v2.24 for all Packet Writing tests. We used Ricoh HS-RW media and we formatted it. The formatting of the media takes around 10min. 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 Acer 2010 is a great performer in the Packet Writing tests. The drive's writing speed was around 7.20x , slight higher than both Ricoh models but lower than the Yamaha 2200E. The drive continues to perform well in the reading part, but stays below from the competition...