Memorex D² DVD±RW/DL Recorder - Page 2

- CD Format

The Memorex F16 supports up to 48X reading speed for CD-R media and 32X for CD-RW. Below are the transfer rate graphs, where we compare its performance against the other two drives:

As we can see from our tests, the drive is much faster than the other two drives with theCD-R media. This is something to be expected since the Memorex drive supports a maximum reading speed of 48X while the other two drives only go up to 40X. In the CD-RW reading tests, the Memorex proved to be the slowest among the three.

- DVD Format

With Single Layer media, the Memorex was only slighty faster while with Dual Layer, the Pioneer dominate although this is due to the difference in supported speeds.

With DVD-R/+R media, the Pioneer drives was once again the fastest while with rewritable media the difference is negligible.

In our DVD ripping test with a pressed DL movie, the F16 had the fastest tranfer rate and by a fairly large margin.

- Appendix

Nero CD-DVD Speed Graphs

• CD Pressed / CD-R / US-RW
• DVD Pressed SL / DVD Pressed PTP DL / DVD Pressed OTP DL / DVD-R / DVD-RW / DVD+R / DVD+RW