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RW Writing Tests

The ASUS CRW5224 supports the new 24X US-RW (P-CAV) recording technology. With US-RW media, the drive supports a variety of recording speeds starting from 10X (CLV), 12X (CLV), 16X (CLV) and of course 24X (P-CAV).

With HS-RW media, it supports the 4X, 8X, 10X and the 12X (CLV) writing speeds.

For the burning tests, we burned a full 74mins disc with all the drives. The results are showed in the following chart. We used the maximum supported speed for each drive.

The ASUS CRW5224 makes the surprise and finishes first with US-RW media. The drive needed only 219secs (3:39mins). The YAMAHA comes second with 221secs while the PleXWriter PX-W4824A third with 224secs. The AOpen CRW5224 and SONY CRX-220E1 are slower due to the use of the CAV recording and cannot compete the ASUS CRW5224. With HS-RW media, we had the following results:

- Packet Writing Tests

We used Ahead InCD v3.51.61 for the packet writing tests.

The formatted disc had 534 MB 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 more than once, to eliminate any possible time measurement faults and user errors.

The ASUS CRW5224 perfomed very good under packet writing mode with the US-RW media. The YAMAHA and Plextor drive leads the packet writing tests. With HS-RW media, the ASUS CRW5224 had also very good reading/writing performance and shares the second place with SONY CRX220E1: