CD Recording Tests

- CD-R Format

The drive supports 4X, 8X, 16X (CLV), 24X and 32X (Zone-CLV) writing speeds.

According to Nero CDSpeed, the drive ends the test after 3.45mins. The test started at 15.94X and finished at 32.42X having an average speed of 24.89X.

- CD-R Recording Times

We created an 80min data compilation with Nero Burning Rom and recorded it on a 700MB disc. The writing performance varies according to the inserted media. Below is a chart demonstrating all recording times with various media. The best recording time was with BenQ media at 4:17mins.

Below is another graph that displays the recording times for the same project with all the tested drives. The BenQ drive has the lowest recording time, due to its 40X CAV writing technology.

- Other features

The drive supports overburning, writing up to 90mins and can read/write CD-Text.

- CD-RW Format

The drive supports both the HS-RW and US-RW formats. With US-RW media, 10X, 16X (CLV), 20X and 24X (Z-CLV) writing speeds are available, as Nero reports.

Below you can see the Nero CD-DVD Speed writing simulation test with blank 24X US-RW media from Mitsubishi Chemicals.

We also used Nero Burning Rom in order to burn a data disc at 24X. The data compilation we burned had a size of 651 MB and the duration of the recording process was 4:03 minutes.

- CD-RW Mount Rainier

The drive doesn't support the Mount Rainier feature.