AOpen EHW-4048 CD-RW - Page 8

RW Writing Tests

With HS-RW media, the drive supports the 4X, 10X and 12X CLV re-writing speeds. For the burning tests, we burned a full 74mins disc with all the drives. The results are showed in the following chart, for the maximum supported speed of each drive.

The faster re-writer comes from YAMAHA with 226secs, due to its 24X US-RW writing speed. The rest of the drives support the 12X maximum re-writing speed. The faster drive comes from Plextor with 398secs. The AOpen drive gets the last place with 408secs.

- Packet Writing Tests

We used Ahead InCD v3.51.61 for the packet writing tests. The formatted disc had 534 MB 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 more than once, to eliminate any possible time measurement faults and user errors.

The packet writing performance for the AOpen drive was good and shares the second place with FRISBYII. However, the drive cannot compete the 24X re-writer from YAMAHA. At the reading part, the AOpen drive gets the first place with 20.27X