CD Recording Tests

- CD-R Writing Tests

The TEAC DV-W58G supports a maximum writing speed of 40x for the CD-R family. To test the writing speed and writing method of the drive we used a blank 80min CD-R disc from TY and NeroCDSpeed to emulate the writing process.

After the end of the test, software reports that the disc was written under CAV mode with average writing speed 31.58x.

- Recording Times

We created an 80min data compilation with Nero Burning Rom and recorded it on a 700MB disc. All three drives support a maximum writing speed of 40x, therefore the writing time for all three drives is about the same. As we can see from the above graph the fastest writing speed comes from the Pacific Digital drive which took 3:08min, while the TEAC drive finished the writing process in 3:10min.

On the above graph we have summarized the writing speeds from the three drives for all possible recording speeds. Overall, the Pacific Digital drive is the faster recorder among the three but the TEAC is very close behind, there not being much betweeen them.

We used various manufacturers media to test the writing speed and media compatibility of the TEAC drive. All discs we tested were written at 40x and most had times below 200 seconds except for Mam SG Ultra, manufactured by Mitsui, (Code:97m27s58f) that was written at 24x, although it is certified for writing at 48x.

- CD-RW Writing Tests

TEAC DV-W58G supports 4x(CLV) for low speed CD-RW, 10x(CLV) for High speed CD-RW and 24x(Partial CAV) for Ultra speed CD-RW. To test the writing speed and method for the TEAC with the -RW format we used CDSpeed writing simulation test with blank 24x US-RW media from Mitsubishi Chemicals.

The test confirmed the drives specifications for 24x rewriting. The burning procedure started at 18.59x and finished at 24.35x having an average speed of 23.46x

Below we provide a comparison of the three drives where we used Nero Burning Rom software to burn a 651MB data compilation onto 24x US-RW media from Mitsubishi Chemicals. The graph shows that all drives took almost exactly the same time to complete the test, while the TEAC drive was about 6 to 7 seconds slower with Quick Erase process.

- Packet Writing Tests

For the packet writing test we used the InCD packet writing software from Nero and a Mitsubishi Chemicals 24x US-RW media. The tested file is a 403 MB file (412.822 KB) and we used the drag and drop method with Windows Explorer to write the file from our hard disk onto RW media.

The reading and the writing process under packet writing, gave back almost the same results. The average reading speed is 18.6x while the average writing speed is 18.0x.

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