Writing Quality Tests

We used Ricoh's 74min 24x CD-R media. All CDs were burned at 24x writing speed for each drive with Nero 5.5.5.4/6 and were Audio CDs with 74:51:27 in size. The produced CDs, were measured from DigitalDrives and results are illustrated in the following tables:

The Yamaha CRW3200E as was expected has the lower recording times among the competition. The drive needs only 3:47mins to end the task. PleXWriter PX-W2410A needs 7 more second to finish but managed to produce better quality CDs. Since Yamaha drive is still in 1.00 firmware, future updates will further improve media compatibilty and writing quality. The AOpen CRW2440 comes third with 246secs and LiteOn LTR-24102B last with 252secs.

The following graphs comes from the Ricoh 74min (24x) media with OWC (Optimum Write Control) enabled/disabled:

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With Mitsui 74min 24x certified media, the Yamaha CRW3200E keeps the lowest recording time among with the best writing quality.

With Taiyo Yuden 74min 24x certified media, LiteOn LTR-24102B made the suprise and produced very good quality written CDs. The AOpen CRW2440 comes second with 0.5 C1 average error rates.

Lastly non of the tested drives seem to produce very good quality CDs when Mitsubishi Chemicals (Verbatim) 74min 24x certified media used. Actually Yamaha noted that their tests indicate the same level of performance, so they have dropped Mitsubishi Chemical's 24x media out of their reccomended suppored media list.