Pioneer DVR-A05 IDE DVD-R/-RW - Page 9

HS-RW Writing Tests

We used Nero Burning Rom for writing CDs in the maximum RW speed for Pioneer DVR-A05. The drive supports 8X maximum rewriting speed.

The DVR-A05 finished in 9:57 minutes, and needed just 32 seconds to perform the "quick erase" task with Nero. The DVR-A05 is slower since it supports 4X maximum RW speed.

- Packet Writing Tests

We used InCD and Ricoh HS-RW media for all Packet Writing tests. The formatting of the media takes around 10min. The formatted disc had 530mbs of free space. We copied a 403 MB file (403.147 kbs) from a Hard Disk (on the same PC as the writers) to the formatted RW media-using explorer (we dragged and dropped) we completed the test twice to eliminate possible time measurement faults and user errors:

In the writing part, Pioneer DVR-A05 gave a 5.6X average sreed, but was slower in the reading part with 3.41X.