CD Recording Tests

- CD-R Writing Tests

TEAC DW-548D supports 4x, 8x, 12x, 16x, 24x, 32x, 40x and 48x CAV writing speeds. Below you can see the CDSpeed writing simulation graph with Taiyo Yuden 48x CD-R media.

The writing process began at 21.73x and finished at 49.02x, reporting an average recording speed of 37.12x. According to this, the manufacturer's specification of 48x recording is confirmed.

- Recording Times

We created an 80min data compilation with Nero Burning Rom and write it on a 700MB disc. The drive's time was 2:56 minutes, at 48x writing speed. The performance is good for 48x recording speed.

Below are the whole writing times giving to us the device, using Taiyo Yuden media.

The following graph showing us, recording times with various media brands. We selected the maximum speed (48x) for all the recorded discs:

- CD-RW Writing Tests

The TEAC DW-548Dsupports 24x CAV maximum rewriting speed, with Ultra Speed rewritable media. Below are the results from the CDSpeed writing simulation test with blank 24x US-RW media from Mitsubishi Chemicals.

The test once again confirmed the drives specifications for 24x rewriting. The burning procedure started at 10.93x and finished at 24.53x having an average speed of 18.59x.

We also used Nero Burning Rom software to burn a data disc using 24x US-RW media from Mitsubishi Chemicals. The data compilation, which we burned, had a size of 651 MB. The duration of the recording process was 4:53 minutes.

Just for comparison, we provide the rewriting time of the Teac drive against those of Optorite and LiteOn, as mention before, on introduction.

- Packet Writing Tests

Using InCD and Mitsubishi Chemicals 24x US-RW media for all Packet Writing tests, we copied a 403 MB file (412.822 KB) from Hard Disk (on the same PC as the recorder) to the formatted RW media through Windows explorer (drag and drop).

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