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The Lite-On 16101B supports up to 16x (CLV) writing speed. We used CD Speed 99 build-in writing test in order to test the drive's writing performance. The drive's average writing speed is 16.01X as CD Speed 99 showed:

- Procedure:

We tested the Lite-On 16101B with Nero v5.5.2.3, CloneCD v3.0.0.20 and Padus DJ v3.00.780 software.

For the CDR tests we used: Verbatim 74min (16x) & 80min (16x), Taiyo Yuden 74 & 80min (24x), Mitsui 74min (16x), Prodisc 80min (16x) silver and Ricoh/Verbatim/TDK 74min HS-RW media.

- CD-R Tests:
We created "DataCD" job with data slight higher than 74mins (74:03:65). We burned the same job with all 4 CDR-W drives:

The Lite-On drive in the 12x writing speed gives a time very close the one from what the competition does. It needed 406secs to finish the task, when Plextor needs one second less. As for the Teac it makes much more time due to its triple OPC writing test.

The drive differences are higher in the 16x writing speed. The drive needs 6 more seconds to finish the task from the Plextor and 4secs from the Sanyo drive. This time difference is not so big and we cannot count it as a negative. It seems that the drive takes extra time in the OPC procedure.

- 80min CDs:
As with the previous test, we created a DataCD (80:01:47) and used the same media for all burns:

Again in the 80min CD task, the Lite-On drive needs 3-4more seconds to finish the same amount of data from the competitor Plextor, Sanyo drives.

Again in the 16x writing speed, Lite-On needs 7-8 more seconds than the Plextor, Sanyo drives. The CPU Usage seems in the levels of the competition (12.3%).

- Overburning Tests:
The Lite-On drive supports overburning only up to 90minutes. With both 90 and 99minute CDs the drive stops writing at 90:01minutes and sometimes also hangs (with the CD Speed 99 software).

- CD-Text Results:
We created several AudioCDs with CD-Text enabled. The Lite-On drive writes them without any problem and read them but for a strange reason refused to playback CD-Text enabled Audio CDs.

- CloneCD Tests:
The CloneCD v3.0.0.20 reports that the drive supports the DAO-RAW writing feature. The drive also supports BURN-Proof. From our tests results DAO-RAW writing works without any problem for the SafeDisc 1, LaserLock 1/2 and SecuROM 2 protections.

- SD2 Support:
For the SD2 test we used the "No One Lives For Ever" CD title. We used the Lite-On LTR-16101B both as reader/writer. The produced backup didn't play using the same driver or any drive we tested. Therefore also the Lite-On drive cannot produce SD2 working backups.

- 8cm mini CDs:
The Lite-On LTR-16101B drive supposed to support 8cm CDs. Our simulation test burns with CD Speed 99 software failed. :(

- Buffer Underrun tests:
The Lite-On LTR-16101B has been awarded from the BURN-Proof certificate center as a BURN-Proof enabled drive. This ensures that the drive's "BURN-Proof" function will work perfectly under any situation. We made several on-the-fly copies with CloneCD v3.0x series without any problems and we had the PC stopped (with ctrl+shit+del) several times. In all cases, the drive continued writing.