RW Writing Tests

We used Nero 5.5.5.6 for writing CDs at the maximum RW speed for all the tested drives. The TEAC CD-W524E supports fully the HS-RW format:

The TEAC CD-W524E has the highest re-writing time with 490secs. The drive used in average the 9.7% of the CPU while burning and erased the HS-RW CD in 65sec.

- Packet Writing Tests

We used Ahead InCD v3.12b for all Packet Writing tests with a TDK HS-RW media. The formatting of the media takes around 11 minutes. 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 TEAC CD-W524E has slightly lower writing speed than the competition. The average writing speed is 7.16X. The average reading speed (7.05X) is very low and this is the point that TEAC engineers should improve.