BenQ DW1600A DL Recorder - Page 9

In the following page we present the 3T Pit & Land Jitter graphs when using various media burned at 40X CAV writing speed.

- 3T Pit results

The drive's performance can be characterized as average with most media used. The highest 3T Pit jitter reached was 42nsec with TraxData 52x media, which is way above the Red Book limit of 35nsec and was the worst performer among the media used. It should be noted that the DW1600A can write TraxData 52X media at 16X maximum speed, an issue that should be sorted out with a new firmware update from BenQ. The best results came with BenQ CD-R media which was the only media that managed to stay below the 35nsec limit.

- 3T Land results

The average 3T Land results were similar to those with Pit jitter. The maximum 3T Land Jitter reached 42nsec and again, TraxData 52X CD-R media produced the worst results, while Verbatim and to some extent BenQ (it had high Jitter towards the end) CD-R media produced the best.

In the following page we check the C1 and C2 error rates of the same discs, to come up with more specific conclusions.