Pioneer DVR-A05 IDE DVD-R/-RW - Page 2

Data CD Tests

- Pressed CD results (Click to see the CD Speed Graphs)

The DVR-A05 supports 32X CAV maximum CD reading speed. As it was expected, the drive is faster than the previous Pioneer model, and gives a 24.84X average reading speed.

The DVR-A05 has also lower seek times than the DVR-A04. In all the seek modes, the drive has improved the performance by approximately 20msec. The results agree with the manufacturer's specifications.

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

Both drives are quite fast with the CDR media. The DVR-A05 improved the average reading speed by 1X.

In the seek test, the results were not different than in the pressed CD test.

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

For the RW tests we used the Ricoh HS-RW media. The DVR-A05 starts reading at 14.93X and finished at 33.82X, resulting to 25.5X average speed. The drive is significally faster than the previous Pioneer model.