Pacific Digital U-30201 DVD±RW recorder - Page 7

DAE Tests

- Pressed and CDR AudioCD results

The Pacific Digital U-30201 uses 40x CAV strategy for CD-DA. Below is the resultant output from the CDSpeed transfer rate test with a pressed audio CD:

According to CDSpeed, the average reading speed with this disc was 30.89x, achieving a final speed of 40.08x while the reported seek times were quite satisfactory.

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 27.6x:

For the same test, the LiteOn and Optorite drives gave 39.9x and 28.5x average speeds respectively.

- Advanced DAE Quality

In the Nero CD Speed Advanced DAE test, the Pacific Digital drive posted an average speed of 28.23 and a quality score of 100. CDSpeed reports that the drive can read Leadin, Leadout data, Cd Text and Subchannel Data.

- Support of 90/99mins AudioCDs

Supports 99min disc

- Reading/Ripping Protected AudioCDs

For the test procedure we used two audio discs with different audio protection schemes. We tested for both recognition and ripping to the hard disk. The software used was 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 Pacific Digital U-30201 presented no problems with either ripping or playback of the two pressed discs and their respective protection schemes.