RW Writing Tests

We used Nero 5.0.3.8 for writing CDs in maximum RW writing speed for all the tested drives. All other drives write at 10x RW writing speed except Yamaha CRW2100E since it supports only 8x re-write:

The Sanyo and TDK drives gave the same time (around 491 secs) in the HS RW writing test. The Yamaha 2100E gave back the biggest time since the drive supports only 8x writing speed. The erase times are more the same for all Sanyo/TDK drives. However we noticed several problems when tried to erase HS RW media. The drive locked at the end and after reboot the media wasn't really erased. This happened several times and leads us in the assumption that there might be another bug in this area.

- Packet Writing Tests:
We used Prassi abCD 1.5.269 for all Packet Writing tests - avoid installing latest PX Engine update since after that Prassi abCD refused to recognize the TDK CyClone 161040. We used Plextor HS-RW media and we formatted it. The formatting of the media takes around 7min. After formatting, we tested all four drives for their packet writing performance.

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 error:

The results show that the TDK CyClone 161040 doesn't perform very well in the packet writing tests. The Yamaha 2100E seems to perform better, especially in the writing mode. The TDK CyClone 161040 performs very well at the reading part with 6.45x.