Writing Quality Tests

We used Ricoh's 74min 24x CD-R media. All CDs were burned at 24x writing speed for each drive with Nero 5.5.5.6 and were Audio CDs with 74:51:27 in size. The produced CDs, were measured from DigitalDrives and results are illustrated in the following tables:

The ASUS CRW2410S performed very well, when Ricoh's 74min 24x certified media were used. The average C1 error rate is 0.9 and the average burning time is 236secs, very close to the PleXWriter PX-W2410A. The following graph comes from the Ricoh 74min (24x) media:

The ASUS CRW2410S general writing quality was very good and the only part of the chart where the C1 error rate is high is at 5-7mins, where the shifting from 16x to 20x takes place.

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With Mitsui 74min 24x certified media, the ASUS CRW2410S showed an average writing quality with only 1.3 C1 average error rate.

With Taiyo Yuden 74min 24x certified media, the ASUS CRW2410S CR-4809TE has very good performance with only 0.2 C1 error rate. However the burning time is high enough.

None of the tested drives seem to give a very good writing quality when Mitsubishi Chemicals (Verbatim) 74min 24x certified media used. The ASUS CRW2410S has the highest C1 error rate from the 24x Z-CLV recorders, while the average burning time stays at the same level as with the other media.