Sanyo CRD-BP3 SCSI CDR-W - Page 2

Data Tests (Pressed CDs)

Test Method

- CD WinBench 99 v1.1. This was used to compare the Sanyo CRD-BP3 SCSI CDR-W drive with various others CDR-W drives (see charts).
- CD Speed 99 v0.70 was also used to check the drive performance with pressed CDs. For that test we used PlexTools v1.05 original CD.

- CD WinBench 99 v1.1 results

- CD Speed 99 v0.70 results

Verdict of data (pressedCDs) tests

The Sanyo CRD-BP3 CDR-W drive was a little weaker than the PleXWriter PX-W1210A in most tests. Its average reading speed using PlexTools v1.05 was 23.33x when the PX-W1210A had 24.98x. The Sanyo CRD-BP3 however showed much better seek times than most of the other CDR-W drives we have ever tested..In the WinBench 99 test, the Sanyo CRD-BP3 got the second best overall WinMark value behind the PX-W1210A. It reached a transfer rate of 4.34mb/s and 2.12mb/s on the outside and inside of the disc, which are a bit lower than the PX-W1210A ones. Again in that test it had the lower seek time (137ms). The CPU usage was also average (6.55%). Overall the Sanyo CRD-BP3 model seems to have been improved over the previous BP2 model, but seems to need a little fine-tuning to reach the current king of reading performance PX-W1210A.