Partial-CAV versus Zone-CLV - Page 11

Conclusion

After all these tests, you may still wondering. Which is better? P-CAV or Z-CLV? The answer is not easy. Yamaha 2200E may be producing very good quality CDs, but the Ricoh MP7200A drive has done even better. The Yamaha 2200E model seems to have a problem recording at the "15minutes" area where it produces high error rates, when Ricoh MP7200 seems performing very good throughout the entire disc. Of course, Ricoh manufactures the media which we used for all our tests and maybe this is the cause of this drive being "assigned" itself the first place....

When writing at 24x speed, Plextor's PoweRec II seems to be performing very well and offered not only the lower recording time but also the lower C1 error rate. Please take into account that the error rates at 24x recording speed cannot be compared with those exhibited at 20x. This seems normal since, no recording system can escape from nature's laws.

The subject of our review here is very hot and for sure more tests with many other media and drive combinations will follow in the near future. So, stay tuned! The jurney just started...