Yamaha CRW70 vs Philips JackRabbit - Page 7

RW Writing Tests

We used Nero 5.5.5.7 for writing CDs at the maximum RW speed for all the tested drives. Both drives support up to 8x re-writing speed:

Philips PCRW1208JR refused to write in a HSRW disc, when we used Nero or CloneCD. The drive freezes when the drive accesses the CD, and what we have to say is that it is possibly a drive firmware bug. The Yamaha CRW-70 needs 593 seconds to write the HS-RW ,at 8x, and 53 seconds to "quickly" erase it.

- Packet Writing Tests

We used Ahead InCD v3.14 for all Packet Writing tests with a Mitsubishi Chemicals HS-RW media. The formatted disc had 534mbs 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 Windows Explorer (we dragged and dropped) and we completed the test twice to eliminate any possible time measurement faults and user errors:

The Philips CRW1208JR was faster both as reader/writer under the packet writing mode. The difference in writing speed between both drives is small, but in the writing procedure, the Philips drive is faster than the Yamaha CRW-70. The Philips CRW1208JR reads from the packet writing formatted HS-RW disc at 18.5X, while the Yamaha CRW70 at only 4.85X.