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Writing Quality Tests

We burned CDs mostly with OWSC On with YAMAHA CRW-F1DX. We used Nero 5.5.9.9 for all the recordings. The produced CDs, were measured from DigitalDrives and results are illustrated in the following table

The general writing quality of YAMAHA CRW-F1DX is good and sometimes better than its twin brother (CRW-F1E). No C2 errors reported in any of the tested media. Of course with some media the drive performed better than other. The best results come from Mitsubishi Chemicals 48X (OWSC on), while the worst from EMTEC 24X and SmartBuy 32X media. When user de-activate the OWSC function, will notice major speed increase, compared when is enabled. However the writing quality will be worst. Again this is not that can be said confident, since with Fuji Film 48X media, even OWSC is disabled; the writing quality is very good.

In the following table you can see the manufacturing details of the media we used for our tests.