ASUS CRW4816A IDE CD-RW - Page 8

RW-Packet Writing Tests

ASUS drive supports 16x re-writing speed only with specific media (based upon ACER chemicals). The test results were very good since the drive finished the burning at 5:00mins, and gets the first place:

The writing quality of the written disc can be considered as good since the total errors are within the Orange book standard:

- Packet Writing Tests

We used Ahead InCD v3.31 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:

The best performance comes from the CyberDrive. The ASUS CRW4816A comes second with 11.28X average writing speed, while the rest drives stay behind since they have lower re-writing speeds of 12x. The ASUS drive stays below also during the reading under packet writing format with 12.8X.

- Mt. Rainier Tests

For testing the Mt. Rainier performance of the ASUS CRW4816A, we used was WriteCD-RW! by Software Architects. With several tested media, the drive locked after it finished writing. After rebooting the disc was empty. This indicates that ASUS's Mt. Rainier implementation needs improvement...