BenQ DW800A DVD+RW- Page 11

Writing Quality Tests - C1 / C2 Error Measurements

Here we measured the C1 / C2 error rate of the recorded discs burned with the BenQ DW800A drive, at all the supported writing speeds with various media brands. The software used was UMDoctor Pro2 and as a reader drive for retrieving the error rate information we used the Optorite DD0203 drive. The charts below illustrate the Q-Check graphs for various CD-R media and speeds.

• Taiyo Yuden 48x recorded at 12x

• Taiyo Yuden 48x recorded at 16x

• Taiyo Yuden 48x recorded at 24x

• SKC 48x recorded at 32x

• Emtec 48x recorded at 32x

• Ritek 48x recorded at 32x

• Mam 52x recorded at 32x

• Imation 48x recorded at 32x

- Summary

No matter what the media brand or writing speed, the BenQ drive wrote all the discs we used with high quality. According to UMDoctor 2, the C1 error levels were very low while no C2 errors were reported.