CyberDrive CW099D IDE CD-RW - Page 6

CDR Tests

The CyberDrive CW099D supports the 4X, 8X, 12X, 16X, 20X (CLV), 24X, 32X, 40X (P-CAV), 48X and the 52X (CAV) writing speeds.

- Recording Tests

The amount of the data we burned was 704MB (80:01:26), for all the drives. The CyberDrive CW099D was the slowest drive since it needed 2:42mins. The drive takes much time during the lead-out area, so the final recording time is high. Also the drive starts writing the track data after 20secs, a behaviour also known as from the ASUS CRW5224.

The above graph shows the differences of the recording performances for the three tested drives in all the supported writing speeds. The results are the best we had for each speed. As we can see the CyberDrive is not the faster recorder at any speed, since the ASUS CRW5224 takes the lead at 32X, 40X and 48X.

- CyberDrive CW099D recording results

- Overburning Tests

The drive can overburn up to 99mins with specific media.

With other media it can overburn up to 97:43mins.

- CD-Text Results

Both drives can read/write CD-Text without any problems.

- CloneCD Writing Tests

The CloneCD software reports that the drive supports the DAO-RAW feature. With the use of proper media, DAO-RAW writing can be performed at 52X (CAV). For checking the drive's EFM correction status, we used 3 different game titles with different SafeDisc 2 versions with the latest software patches installed. We used the drive as reader/writer at maximum reading/recording speed. Two discs were burned for each game. One disc was burned with PadusDJ and the other with CloneCD (Amplify Weak Sectors On). The results are posted in the following table:

The CyberDrive CW099D, as well as the rest 52X recorders, can backup SafeDisc v2.5x.xx ~ 2.80.xx builds without any problems.