TDK CyClone 12/10/32 IDE CDR-W - Page 6

RW Writing Tests

We used Nero 5.0.2.4 for writing CDs at 10x RW writing speed since the drive supports the new HS RW recording standard. We created a 74min Data Job task and burned it with all 3 recorders:

The TDK and Plextor drives again returned the same times and took second place as the Sanyo drive completed the task 5seconds earlier. When the time comes to erase your HS RW media TDK and Plextor drive had the same erase times .The Sanyo had the best erase time of 39 seconds.

- Packet Writing Tests:
We used Prassi abCD v1.5.269 for all Packet Writing tests. We used Ricoh HS RW media and we formatted it. The formatting of the media took around 8min. After formatting, we tested all three drives for their packet writing performance. The formatted disc had 530mbs of free space. We copied a 403 MB file (403.1476kbs) from a Hard Disk (on the same pc as the writers) to the formatted RW media-using explorer (we dragged and dropped). We also repeated the test twice to eliminate possible time measurement faults and user error:

The results show clearly that the Plextor drive has the best reading/writing speed results when compared to the other two drives. Both the TDK and Plextor drives took the same time to finish the task. The TDK drive took nearly double the amount of time to read the files from CD to HDD. However, we feel this may not be a negative point since TDK will soon release a new firmware revision. Plextor did the same thing and will improved the reading speed from Packet formatted CDs.

Verdict of CDR-W Results:
Again both the TDK and Plextor drives had the same performance results. The Plextor drive had much better reading speeds when using Packet formatted CDs, but the TDK's performance should soon also reach that level. The Sanyo drive achieved the lowest times when using RW media but gave produced the worst results when using it with Packet Writing software.