TEAC CD-W548E IDE CD-RW - Page 6

CDR Tests

The drive supports 4X, 8X, 12X, 16X (CLV), 24X, 32X, 40X, and 48X (P-CAV) writing speeds.

- Recording Tests

The amount of the data we burned was 704MB (80:01:26), for all the drives. The TEAC CD-W548E finished the task first in only 152secs (2:32mins)! The current 52X recorders are faster by only 3 secs, so the performance is really good. The second place is shared between two drives (SONY CRX-210E1 and CyberDrive CW088D). The ASUS CRW4816A comes third with 161secs and PleXWriter PX-W4824A follows with 167secs.

The above graph shows the differences of the recording performances for the three tested drives in all the supported writing speeds. The results are the best we had for each speed. As we can see the Teac drive takes the lead at the 48X and 40X speeds. At 32X the drive is only three seconds slower than ASUS CRW4816A.

- TEAC CD-W548E recording results

- Overburning Tests

The drive can overburn up to 99mins with specific media. However, when we used 99mins media from Disc4You the drive halted at the lead-in area. The below picture is the procedure result with a 99min disc from Unitech.

- CD-Text Results

Both drives can read/write CD-Text without any problems.

- CloneCD Writing Tests

The CloneCD software reports that the drive supports the DAO-RAW feature. With the use of proper media, DAO-RAW writing can be performed at 48X (CAV). For checking the drive's EFM correction status, we used 3 different game titles with different SafeDisc 2 versions with the latest software patches installed. We used the drive as reader/writer at maximum reading/recording speed. Two discs were burned for each game. One disc was burned with PadusDJ and the other with CloneCD (Amplify Weak Sectors On). The results are posted in the following table:

Shifting from Sanyo to MediaTek chipsets affected the drive's performance with the SafeDisc 2 protected discs. The drive can now backup them without the need of any special software...