Toshiba SD-R5002 IDE DVD-R/RW - Page 2

Data CD Tests

- Pressed CD results (Click to see the CD Speed Graphs)

Toshiba CD-R5002 supports 40X CAV CD-R reading speed. As it was expected, the drive is faster than the Pioneer model, and gives a 30.75X average reading speed.

Toshiba SD-R5002 has also lower seek times than the DVR-A04. In all the seek modes, the drive has improved the performance by approximately 20msec. The results agree with the manufacturer's specifications.

- CDR Media results (Click to see the CD Speed Graphs)

Both drives are faster with the CDR media. The Toshiba drive improved the average reading speed by approximately 1X.

In the seek test, the results were not different than in the pressed CD test.

- HS-RW media (Click to see the CD Speed Graphs)

For the RW tests we used Verbatim HS-RW media. Toshiba SD-R5002 supports 20X CAV reading speed for the HS-RW format. The drive gave a 16.45X average speed. Pioneer DVR-A04 is faster and finished the test at 19.16X.