Freecom Traveller II Combo DVD/CD-RW - Page 2

Data Tests

- SCSI Mechanic v3.0x results

Freecom Traveller II gave the best Average Random I/O result with (776 kb/sec). In the sequential reading test, the Freecom drive is also fast and comes second behind Plextor with 2670 kb/sec. The same sector read test seems to be friendlier to the Teac CD-W280PU mechanism. The performance here is very high and reaches the 10530 kb/sec, while Freecom Traveller II gave just an 1328 kb/sec average result.

- Nero CD Speed v0.85 results: (Click to see the CD Speed Graphs)

Freecom Traveller II keeps up with the good performance at the Nero CD Speed test. The average reading performance forFreecom Traveller II is 18.25X, very close to Plextor's PX-S88TU performance.

In the same test, we measured the seek time of the drive. As you can see in the graph above, Freecom Traveller II is very fast and leads the race with 86 sec in the random access test! Teac CD-W280PU follows with 109 sec. Freecom seems to have done a very good work with the drive's mechanism.

- CDR Media: (Click to see the CD Speed Graphs)

Freecom Traveller II improved its reading performance with the CDR media. The drive leads with 18.63X average reading speed while the Plextor stays close with 18.53X.

- HS-RW media: (Click to see the CD Speed Graphs)

For the RW tests we used the Ricoh HS-RW media. Freecom Traveller II is the fastest reader in this test with 18.61X average reading speed: