CD Recording Tests

- CD-R Writing Tests

The CyberDrive DX082D supports 8x, 12x, 16x, 24x and 32x P-CAV writing speeds. Below can be seen the CDSpeed writing simulation graph when using a 48x CD-R media from Taiyo Yuden.

Reading started at 18.67x at the beginning of the disc and the maximum 32x speed was reached by the 40:00 min address mark on the disc. According to Nero CDSpeed, the average writing speed for an 80min CD-R was 29.01x. As was mentioned in the first page, Cyberdrive took advantage of the Nexperia chipset and achieved a 32x P-CAV CD-R recording speed instead of the 24x speed reached by the Philips DVDR824P drive.

- Recording Times

For this burning test we created an 80min data compilation disc by using Nero Burning Rom and recorded it at the maximum available speed on a 700MB disc. The graph above shows the time required by each drive, at its maximum speed, to write this test disc.

By looking at this graph it becomes evident that the writing speed varied considerably among the tested drives. In particular, the Plextor and Optorite drives recorded at 40x, Philips DVDR824P at 24x while the Cyberdrive DX082x at 32x. However, the Optorite drive required around the same time as the CyberDrive due to Cyberdrive's use of P-CAV as opposed to Optorite's CAV writing method. The Plextor drive proved the fastest drive with 178sec, due to its 40x P-CAV strategy.

Below can be seen the best writing times for the CyberDrive DX082D at 8x, 12x, 16x, 24x and 32x. The disc used was the same for all speeds and came from Taiyo Yuden. In each case, the Seamless Link feature was enabled.

The following graph shows the recording times with different media brands, recorded at the maximum speed of 32x.

Judging from the recording times, the Cyberdrive DX082D reduced the writing speed during the burning process, with Ritek 48x and SKC 48x media.

- CD-RW Writing Tests

CyberDrive supports 24x CLV maximum rewriting speed, with Ultra Speed rewritable media. The following graph shows results of the writing process with a 24x US-RW from Mitsubishi Chemicals.

The test started at a speed of 18.67x, accelerating to the maximum writing speed of 24x at around the 12 minute mark and continuing on at that speed for the rest of the procedure. The test finished at 24.20x.

We used Nero Burning Rom in order to burn a US-RW data disc from Mitsubishi Chemicals. The data compilation size was 650 MB and the duration of the recording process with the CyberDrive DX082D was an impressive 03:35min. The best rewriting times for all the drives are presented in the following graph.

As can be seen, the CyberDrive drive was the fastest of all the drives. The second best time was achieved by the Plextor drive being only slightly slower. Philips was the slowest in this test with 10x rewriting speed.

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