RW Writing Tests

We used Nero 5.5.5.7 for writing CDs at the maximum RW speed for all the tested drives. Sony CRX175A supports fully the HS-RW format:

Sony CRX175A has the third best re-writing time with 487secs. The drive used in average the 6% of the CPU while burning and erased the HS-RW CD in only 35sec!

- Packet Writing Tests

We used Ahead InCD v3.14 for all Packet Writing tests with a Teac HS-RW medium. The formatting of the media takes around 11 minutes. The formatted disc had 534mbs 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 twice to eliminate any possible time measurement faults and user errors:

Sony CRX175A has slightly lower writing speed than the first PlexWriter PX-W2410A. The average writing speed is 7.2X, which is a very good performance. The average reading speed (17.4X) is also adequate, slightly faster than the Plextor drive but slower than Yamaha CRW3200E.