CD Recording Tests

- CD-R Writing Tests

The LiteOn SOHC-5232 supports 4x, 8x, 12x, 16x, 24x, 32x, 40x, 48x and 52x CAV writing speeds. Below you can see the CDSpeed writing simulation graph with Taiyo Yuden 52x CD-R media.

The writing process began at 23.36x and finished at 52.70x reporting an average recording speed of 39.90x. According to this, the manufacturer's specification of 52x recording is confirmed.

- Recording Times

We created an 80min data compilation with Nero Burning Rom and recorded it on a 700MB disc. The drive's recording time was 2:36 minutes, with 52x writing speed selected.

The chart below compare the writing times of the LiteOn SOHC-5232K with the Optorite CW5201 and the Aopen CRW232 drive at 8x, 12x, 16x, 24x and 32x with Taiyo Yuden media.

The LiteOn drive is one of the few drives that support writing in such a great variety of speeds. As you can see from the chart above, the other 2 drives we used for comparison don't support 8x writing.

This chart indicate the resulting time at 40x, 48x and 52x speeds. The same drives and media were used for the following comparison.

In the following graph you can see the recording times with various media brands. We selected the maximum speed (52x) for all the recorded discs, although the drive lowered this speed to 48x, with Mam-E and Creation media:

- CD-RW Writing Tests

The LiteOn SOHC-5232K supports 32x P-CAV maximum rewriting speed, with Ultra Speed rewritable media. Below are the results from the CDSpeed writing simulation test with blank 32x US-RW media from Mitsubishi Chemicals.

The test once again confirmed the drives specifications for 32x rewriting. The burning procedure started at 16.04x and finished at 32.17x having an average speed of 27.67x.

We also used Nero Burning Rom software to burn a data disc using 32x US-RW media from Mitsubishi Chemicals. The data compilation, which we burned, had a size of 651 MB. The duration of the recording process was 3:22 minutes.

Just for comparison, we provide the rewriting time of the Sony drive against those of the Optorite and LiteOn.

- Packet Writing Tests

Using InCD and Mitsubishi Chemicals 32x 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 the Hard Disk (on the same PC the recorder is) to the formatted RW media through Windows explorer (drag and drop). We repeated the operation twice, once with the MRW (Mt. Rainier packet writing) off and once more with the mode on.

INCD

Mt. Rainier

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