AOpen CRW4850 IDE CD-RW - Page 5

DAE Tests

- DAE features

- Pressed AudioCD

The CyberDrive CW-088D gets the first place with 34.9X. The SONY CRX-210E1 follows with 34.8X and the AOpen CRW4850 comes third with 34.3X average reading speed.

- Audio CD-R media

With CD-R media, the AOpen 4850 gets the first place with 34.5X.

- EAC Secure Extract Ripping mode

EAC's secure extract ripping mode results, which ensures maximum produced WAV quality. Note that for each drive we used the built-in detection function:

- Advanced DAE test

All the drives got a "100" score. The DAE speed for the AOpen drive under the 'Turbo' mode is 35.27X. The drive can read CD-Text and Subchannel data as the Advanced DAE test showed...

- 40X reading speed

- 50X reading speed

- Bad CDR Media results

We used CD DAE software to rip the whole disc (756539616 sectors) to the hard disk.

The condition of the disc can be considered as very bad, so the purpose of this test is not to get the best results with zero read errors, but to estimate the capabilities of the drive. The AOpen CRW4850 locked its reading speed at 8.3X and ended the test with a high error rate (12.72%), but it did manage to finish the task.

- Ripping 90 and 99mins AudioCDs

- Reading/Ripping Protected AudioCDs

For the test procedure we used 2 protected AudioCDs, which we tested in both recognition and ripping (with EAC BURST mode) processes:

* Pressed AudioCD with Sony Key2Audio (Celine Dion - New Day Has Come)
* Pressed AudioCD with Cactus Data Shield 200 (Natalie Imbruglia - White Lilies Island)

The AOpen CRW4850 was able to rip CDS200 but not Key2Audio protected Audio discs...