For our Blu-Ray reading tests, we used a variety of media, either burned or pressed Test Discs to measure the drive's performance.

According to the official specifications, the Pioneer BDR-S13U-X can read BD-ROM at 12x, BD-ROM DL at 8x, BD-ROM TL at 4x, BD-R at 12x, BD-R DL at 8x, BD-R TL/QL at 6x, BD-R(LTH) at 8x, BD-RE at 10x, BD-RE DL at 6x, BD-RE TL at 4x, M-DISC(BD) SL at 12x, M-DISC(BD) DL at 8x and M-DISC(BD) TL at 6x.

Blu-Ray Single Layer

Blu-Ray Movie 25GB

The drive reads in CAV the disc, starts from 4.60X and ends at 12.42X, producing an average of 8.25X.

Blu-Ray Movie 25GB Ripping

The latest MakeMKV version supports fully the drive to backup BD-Movies to your HDD with full reading speed.

We saw up to 5.9X ripping speeds that concluded a 21.43mins for a full disc rip.

BD-R 25GB

The drive started at 2.53X and finishes reading at 5.97X producing an average of 4.26X.

BD-RΕ 25GB

The drive started at 2.50X and finishes reading at 5.41X producing an average of 4.24X.

Dual Layer Blu-Ray Media

Movie 50GB

According to the official specifications, the reading speed for Dual Layer discs is up to 6X, which more or less confirmed from our tests.

BD-R 50GB

BD-RΕ 50GB

Triple Layer Media

Ultra 4K Blu-Ray 100GB Movie

Triple layer discs are read to 4X CLV, which was confirmed from our tests as well.

BD-R 100GB

Quad Layer Media

BD-R 128GB

Quad layer discs are also read with 4X CLV reading speed.