RW Writing Tests

We used Nero 5.5.1.1 for writing CDs at the maximum RW speed for all the tested drives. All other drives wrote at 10x RW writing speed, except from the Yamaha CRW2100E since it writes the HS RW media in 8X speed:

We could say that TEAC CD-W516EB managed to stay into the competition with a 493sec performance. The drive used in average the 9.7% of the CPU while burning and erased the HS-RW CD in 69sec.

- Packet Writing Tests:
We used Ahead InCD v2.11 for all Packet Writing tests. The drive is packaged with v1.80 and we suggest upgrading to the latest one. We used Verbatim HS-RW media and we formatted it. The formatting of the media takes around 7min. After formatting, we tested all four drives for their packet writing performance.

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 explorer (we dragged and dropped) we completed the test twice to eliminate possible time measurement faults and user errors:

The results above show that TEAC CD-W516EB has a very good packet reading/writing performance. The drive wrote the tested file to the CD at 7.135X and read it from the disk at 7X.