CD Recording Tests

- CD-R Format

The drive supports 4X, 8X, 16X (CLV), 20X, 24X and 32X (Zone-CLV) writing speeds.

According to Nero CDSpeed, the drive reached the maximum 32X speed. The test started at 16X and finished at 32.05X with an average speed of 27.36X.

- CD-R Recording Times

We created an 80min data compilation with Nero Burning Rom and recorded it on a 700MB disc. The NEC drive returned a time of 3:39 minutes with 32x writing speed selected, which is a very good time (for 32x). Using Taiyo Yuden media, the drive reported exactly the same results as the ND-2500A.

Because the writing performance can vary according to the inserted media, we present below a chart demonstrating all recording times with various media. Again, the ND-2510A and ND-2500A behavior was exactly the same.

The best performance came with Mam 80min 52X media at 3:39mins. The highest recording time comes with CMC 80min 48X & TraxData 80min 52X media at 3:41mins.

- Other features

The ND-2510A supports overburning, writing up to 90min but only at 16X and can read/write CD-Text.

Unfortunately, the drive is incapable of overburning up to 99min, giving the following error.

- CD-RW Format

The ND-2510A supports 4X, 8X and 16X rewriting speeds, with Ultra Speed Rewritable Media (US-RW).

Below you can see the Nero CD-DVD Speed writing simulation test with blank 24x US-RW media from Mitsubishi Chemicals.

We also used Nero Burning Rom in order to burn a data disc with 24x US-RW media from MC. The data compilation we burned had a size of 651 MB and the duration of the recording process was 5:03 minutes, slightly faster than the ND-2500A that recorded the disc in 5:11 minutes.

- CD-RW Mount Rainier

The NEC ND-2510A doesn`t support the Mount Rainier feature.