TEAC 40/12/48 CD-RW Review @ CDRLabs
Posted on 03/04/02 22:40 by Robin van Lieshout                             
TEAC 40/12/48 CD-RW Review @ CDRLabs

hjs used our newssubmit to tell us that our friend Ian from CDRLabs.com has another review ready: The TEAC CD-W540E 40/12/48 CD-RW.

In the review they took a look at the drive's features and putted it against the 40x writers from Plextor, Lite-On and Benq. They are really optimistic about this drive saying it is one of the most impressive writers they have seen. Some highs and lows:

Highs:
  • One of the fastest writers available.

  • Supports new CD-MRW (Mount Rainier) format.

  • Very good data transfer speeds with all types of media. 

  • Features Sanyo's BURN-Proof buffer underrun protection.

  • The drive has an 8MB buffer. 

  • Pretty good media compatibility. 

  • Features TEAC's Fine Focus Control, Running OPC and Intelligent Speed
    Control technologies to ensure
    writing quality. 

  • Rewrites at 12x.

  • Good DAE speeds. 

  • Very low seek times. The lowest seek times we've seen!

  • Supports UDMA 33.

  • Has a large selection of writing speeds between 40x and 4x.
Lows:
  • Slowest 40x writer we've tested when it comes to DAE.

  • Loud when reading and writing.

  • Cannot rewrite at 12x with all high speed CD-RW media.

Not going to reveal the entire review, go and read it for yourself at cdrlabs.

This 40x drive is also currently in our testing labs so we hope to have a review available soon!

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By hjs, Thursday 04 April 2002 10:03
Nice to see you have a review soon. (did the phonenumber helped i gave?) cdrinfo will have a review online soon (some comment about the cdrlabs review in the cdrinfo forumother hardware)
By Guest, Thursday 04 April 2002 15:33
While I often find cdrlabs pompous and irritating (they always accuse others of not being good reviewers and try to diminish the work done by other sites), the only site that comes on a par with cdrlabs in this bad behaviour is cdrinfo. They both try to accuse every other site of not being good, not being accurate and so on. It looks from their writings that they are not good people. They both sound like jerks, the main difference is that the cdrinfo guy is a bigger jerk thanks to his illiteracy.
By Ian, Thursday 04 April 2002 16:06
hooked on phonics worked for me!
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