TOSHIBA SD-R1202 COMBO IDE CD-RW/DVD-ROM - Page 6

RW Writing Tests

We used Nero 5.5.8.0 for writing CDs in maximum RW writing speed for all the tested drives in 10x HS-RW media. Toshiba SD-R1202 support fully the HS-RW writing standard:

The drive was fast and finished the task in 476 secs. Also, the "quick erase" test give the Toshiba drive the first position with the lowest erasing time.

- Packet Writing Tests

We used Ahead InCD v3.24.3 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 for 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) we completed the test twice to eliminate possible time measurement faults and user errors:

Toshiba SD-R1202 had a good performance in the writing test, but read back the file from the formatted HS-RW in a slower speed, as it was expected. The previous tests had shown that the drive supports approximately 17x HS-RW average reading speed.