Asus DRW-0804P - Page 7

DAE Tests

- Pressed and CDR AudioCD results

The new Asus drive supports 24X maximum reading speed for DAE media and uses CAV reading strategy, and Nero CDSpeed confirmed these specifications.

- Advanced DAE Quality

CDSpeed advanced DAE quality test reported 26.95X average reading speed and award the tested device with a quality score of 100 (perfect). According to the software, the drive can safely be used as a reader for on the fly copying for speeds up to 16X. Moreover, on the advanced features, the drive does not read leadin and lead out information but can read subchannel Data and CD Text.

- Support of 90/99mins AudioCDs

The Asus drive managed to rip the contents of our 90/99min test discs successfully.

- Reading/Ripping Protected AudioCDs

For the test procedure, we used two audio discs with different audio protection schemes. We tested for both recognition and ripping to the hard disk. The software used was Exact Audio Copy.

* Pressed Audio disc protected by Sony Key2Audio (Celine Dion - New Day Has Come)

* Pressed Audio disc protected by Cactus Data Shield 200 (Natalie Imbruglia - White Lilies Island)

On the above table we summarized the results for the three devices after the end of the protected Audio discs test. The Asus drive managed to read and rip only the CDS200 protected disc and could only recognize the Key2Audio media.