CD Recording Tests

- CD-R Writing Tests

The BTC drive supports the 16x, 24x, 32x, 40x writing speeds. Below you can see the CDSpeed writing simulation graph with Taiyo Yuden 48x CD-R media.

The simulation test under Nero CD Speed, confirmed the manufacturer's specifications of 40x CAV recording. The average speed was 21.59x.

- Recording Times

We created an 80min data compilation with Nero Burning Rom and recorded it on a 700MB disc. The BTC needed 3:23 to conclude the burning procedure which was the fastest time among the three drives.

Below we present the best writing times for Toshiba drive at 16x, 24x, 32x, 40x with a Taiyo Yuden media.

In the following graph you can see the recording times with various media brands.

- CD-RW Writing Tests

The BTC supports 24x P-CAV maximum rewriting speed with Ultra Speed rewritable media. Below you can see the results from the CDSpeed writing simulation test with blank 24x US-RW media from Mitsubishi Chemicals.

The test once again confirmed the drive's specifications for 24x rewriting. The average speed at the end of the test was 23.43x.

We also used Nero Burning Rom software to burn a 24x US-RW data media from Mitsubishi Chemicals. The data compilation we burned onto the disc, had a size of 651 MB. The duration of the recording process was 3:43 minutes. Again, the BTC drive was the fastest among the other drives, logical due to the 40x supported maximum writing CD speed.

- Packet Writing Tests

We used InCD and Mitsubishi Chemicals 24x US-RW media for all Packet Writing tests. The formatted disc had 530mbs of free space. We copied a 403 MB file (412.822 KB) from Hard Disk (on the same PC as the recorder) to the formatted RW media through Windows explorer (drag and drop).

- Other features

After the latest firmware B218 the drive is capable for overburning up to 96min.