40x CD-RW Roundup Vol 1 - Page 13

RW Writing Tests

We used Nero 5.5.7.8 for writing CDs at the maximum RW speed for all the tested drives. All tested drives support 12x re-writing speeds:

LiteOn LTR-40125S and PleXWriter PX-W4012A are the faster re-writers in this category. Cendyne Lighting III follows with 2 seconds slower performance and ASUS CRW4012A comes last with 412secs. ASUS CRW4012A also seems to have the lowest erasing time.

- Packet Writing Tests

We used Ahead InCD v3.24 for the packet writing tests with the LiteOn HS-RW media. The formatted disc had 534mbs of free space. We copied a 403 MB file (403.147 kbs) from a Hard Disk (on the same PC as the writers) to the formatted RW media using Windows Explorer (we dragged and dropped) and we completed the test twice to eliminate any possible time measurement faults and user errors:

LiteOn LTR-40125S has a highest writing performance under packet writing format with 8.69X. Cendyne Lighting III follows with 8.66X and ASUS CRW4012A third with 8.65X. PleXWriter PX-W4012A stays below since it didn't manage to reach the 12x re-writing speed with the test disc. In the reading part, LiteOn LTR-40125S comes first with very fast reading speed of 23.18X.