CyberDrive DX082D DVD+RW- Page 7

DAE Tests

- Pressed and CDR AudioCD results

According to CDSpeed, the average reading speed with this disc was 32.58x, and the reported seek times were adequate.

We ripped the contents of the same audio disc to the hard disk with CDDAE software. The drive gave an average ripping speed (burst mode) of 29.4x:

In the same test, Philips had the same speed as the CyberDrive at 29.4x while the Plextor drive gave an average speed of 29x. The Optorite drive was the slowest due to their 32x CAV reading strategy.

The same pressed audio disc was copied onto a CD-R and was read again with CDspeed. the Philips DVDR824P drive gave the highest ripping speed at 29.8x while teh CyberDrive was marginally slower at 29.7x. The Plextor drive reached 29.2x, and Optorite's was once again slowest at 28.1x.

- Advanced DAE Quality

The CyberDrive DX082D achieved a score of 100 (perfect) in the Nero CD Speed Advanced DAE test. CDSpeed reported that the drive can only read Cd Text and Subchannel Data and not Leadin and Leadout information.

- Support of 90/99mins AudioCDs

The drive managed to rip the audio contents of both 90min and 99min audioCDs.

- Reading/Ripping Protected AudioCDs

For this test procedure two audio discs were used with different audio protections. The tasks tested are both recognition and ripping to the hard disk. The software used is Exact Audio Copy.

* Pressed Audio disc protected by Sony Key2Audio (Celine Dion - New Day Has Come)

* Pressed Audio disc protected by Cactus Data Shield 200 (Natalie Imbruglia - White Lilies Island)

The CyberDrive DX082D had no problems with the protected audio discs as was the case with the Plextor drive. Similarly with the Philips drive with the exception, when we used the CDS200 protected disc there were some mutes and skip errors with the playback. Only Optorite failed to rip the CDS200 tracks.