PleXWriter PX-W4012TS SCSI CD-RW - Page 8

RW Writing Tests

For the burning tests, we burned a full 74mins disc with all the drives. The results are showed in the following chart. We used the maximum supported speed for each drive.

Both the PX-W4012TS and PX-W4012A support the 12X writing speed with HS-RW media. The drive will need 400secs to end the task and 35secs to quick ease the media.

- Packet Writing Tests

We used Ahead InCD v3.51.91 for the packet writing tests. The formatted disc had 534 MB 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 Windows Explorer (we dragged and dropped) and we completed the test more than once, to eliminate any possible time measurement faults and user errors.

The PX-W4012TS reached the top with an 8.61X average writing and 17.35X average reading speeds.

- Mt. Rainier Tests

For testing the Mt. Rainier performance, we used was InCD v3.51.91 by Ahead Software. After the format process, we immediately started the recording process (drag & drop). When the drive finished, we started the reading process back to the HD. The PX-W4012TS performed well without any problems. The drive's reading performance was higher than in the normal Packet writing mode, while the writing speed was slightly lower (7.49X).

- EasyWrite tests

The Philips Easy Write test checks the quality level of the Mt Rainier implementation. Although the drive accepted the EasyWrite test suite commands it didn't fulfil the basic PartA v1.60 tests. We are expecting Plextor to improve this with a future firmware update.