Philips DVD+RW 208 - Page 6

RW Writing Tests

We used Nero 5.5.5.7 for writing CDs in maximum RW writing speed for all the tested drives in 10x HS-RW media. Both drives fully support the HS-RW writing standard:

The Philips DVDRW208 is faster than Ricoh MP5120A by only 3 secs. The erase time is almost the same for both drives.

- Packet Writing Tests

We used Ahead InCD v3.14. We used Verbatim's Ricoh HS RW media and we formatted it. The formatting of the media takes around 10min. After formatting, we tested all four drives for their packet writing performance.

The formatted disc had 530mbs of free space. We copied a 403 MB file (403.147 kbs) from a Hard Disk (on the same PC as the writers) to the formatted RW media-using explorer (we dragged and dropped) we completed the test twice to eliminate possible time measurement faults and user errors:

The Philips DVDRW208 performed very well under packet writing mode. The Ricoh drive is slightly faster while writing, but slower at the reading part compared to Philips.

- Packet Writing Under DVD+RW

Packet writing under DVD+RW format is quite easy. Currently InCD supports only Win9x/2k and not WinXP. The software formats the DVD+RW media under UDF v1.50 format in less than 2minutes. The process is very easy and after the disc is formatted you can fit up to 4.37GB of data: