BenQ DW800A DVD+RW - Page 7

- Reading Tests

We created the image of various protected titles to the hard disk, using CloneCD v4.3.1.9 with the appropriate settings and according to the protection type of the inserted discs. Below are summarized the capabilities of the BenQ DW800A drive as presented by the CloneCD programme.

The game titles used and their respective protection schemes are illustrated in the following table :

PSX Pressed Media

BenQ was extremely fast with our PSX game. It managed to rip the disc, reaching 1290.93 sectors/sec (17.21x). In comparison with the two other drives, BenQ was by far fastest.

SafeDisc v.2

With this game LiteOn was the fastest while BenQ had the second best performance (3.95x). Optorite was the slowest.

SecuROM v2

In this test all the drives had similar transfer rates. LiteOn was once again the fastest while BenQ was only marginally slower. BenQ ripped the disc contents at a speed of 27.61x.

- Writing Tests

For checking the drive's correction ability, we used 2 different game titles with different SafeDisc 2 versions with the latest software patches installed. After making the images of the various titles to the hard disk, we burned them (at maximum speed) with CloneCD v4.3.1.7. Two different discs were created for each title; one with the "Amplify Weak Sectors" feature enabled and one more with the function disabled.

In the table below can be seen whether the produced backups were working (game installed / played normally), or not.

BenQ DW800A managed to make successfully working backups of the SafeDisc v.2.51.020. Unfortunately the drive cannot handle the latest versions of the SafeDisc protection scheme. We tried with the v.2.60.052 but the backups we took did not working.