TDK CyClone 241040 IDE CDR-W - Page 6

RW Writing Tests

We used Nero 5.5.2.4 for writing CDs in maximum RW writing speed for all the tested drives in 10x HS-RW media. All drives fully support the HS-RW writing standard:

The TDK and Sanyo drives needed more time to finish the task. The Yamaha 2200E is definitely the winner with only 476secs burning time, and Ricoh 7200A comes third with 485secs. The erase time for TDK is the lower among the 4 tested drives with only 41secs.

- Packet Writing Tests:
We used Ahead InCD v2.13 for all Packet Writing tests. We used Ricoh HS RW media and we formatted it. The formatting of the media takes around 10min. After formatting, we tested all four drives on 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) and we completed the test twice to eliminate possible time measurement faults and user errors:

The results show that both the TDK/Sanyo drives have a very good packet writing performance with 7.16X, while the best was 7.34X (coming from Yamaha 2200E). The Ricoh 7200 comes second with 7.18x, with a very small performance difference from the TDK/Sanyo drives. However those two needs to improve their reading time since the competition is about 270% faster!