Philips JR24CDRW

Review Pages

1. Introduction
2. Data tests
3. CloneCD tests
4. DAE tests
5. CDR Tests
6. Writing Quality Tests
7. Conclusion

Philips JR24CDRW external CD-RW - Page 6

Writing Quality Tests

We burned 80 min media at 16x with Nero 5.5.8.2 . The produced CDs were measured by DigitalDrives and the results are illustrated in the following tables:

Brand	C1		Average Burning Time (mins)
Brand	Max	Average	Average Burning Time (mins)
Plasmon 80min 16x written at 16x	23	1.1	5:34
Plasmon 80min 16x written at 24x	43	1.6	4:22

Philips JR24CDRW produced high quality CDs. The picture above comes from Ritek 80min 16x media, burned at 24x. The maximum C1 error rate in this task was 43 and and is translated in a higher peak in the graph. The average C1 rate was 1.6. Of course, there were no C2 errors.

Other features

Overburning Writing	Yes
CD-Text (Read/Write)	No
8cm CDs	Yes

CloneCD Writing Tests

CloneCD v4.0.0.1 reports that the drive supports the SAO-RAW and RAW SAO+SUB feature. We performed our usual tests and we confirmed that the drive supports the RAW SAO+SUB writing mode at the following CD protections: SafeDisc 1 and LaserLock 1/2 CD protections. The drive cannot handle SecuROM v.2 protected titles.

SD2 Support

For the SD2 test we used the "Emperor: Battle for Dune", "Max Payne", "Serious Sam - The Second Encounter" and "Medal of Honour Allied Assault" game titles. We used the drive both as reader/writer at the maximum reading/recording speed. The produced backups did not work in all the drives we tested.