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Reading performance

We will using Nero CD/DVD-Speed to read various CD and DVD Discs; both burned and pressed for the Reading Performance section of the review. 

Pressed CD-ROM discs

We used an original pressed CD-ROM disc containing 72.39.55 minutes of data.

The ASUS DRW-2014L1T reached 45.99X, so how does that compare with other newer drives, let’s take a look here:

The ASUS DRW-2014L1T reads on average with the other drives in speed and seek times.

CD-Recordable Discs

For this test we used a Data CD-R that we created with Nero CD-DVD Speed in “create data disc” mode.  The disc was a Maxell 48X certified disc manufactured by Ritek.  (Thanks to Maxell for sending us this media.)

The ASUS DRW-2014L1T reached the speed of 40.98X when reading a full CD-R disc.  Let’s take a look on how that compares with other drives.

With our CD-Recordable Disc the ASUS DRW-2014L1T is one of the slowest of our other tested drives.

CD-Rewritable discs

For the CD-Rewritable tests we created a Data CD using Nero CD-DVD Speeds’ “create data disc”.  We used a Verbatim 32X CD-RW.  (We thank Verbatim USA for sending us this media)

The ASUS DRW-2014L1T reaches a read speed of 41.00X; let’s compare this with our other tested drives:

The ASUS DRW-2014L1T performed on average while reading our CD-Rewritable disc.

Audio – Digital Audio Extraction

To test digital audio extraction performance with the ASUS DRW-2014L1T we used Nero CD-DVD Speed to measure the transfer rate; the audio disc we used is 74:00:00 in length.

The ASUS DRW-2014L1T reached the speed of 39.73X when reading our Audio-CD; let’s take a look on how that compares with our other tested drives below:

The ASUS DRW-2014L1T was the slowest in regards to speed, however, the seek times were very good.

Advanced audio – DAE quality test

For the Advanced Audio DAE test we used the “Advanced DAE Quality Test” feature of Nero CD-DVD Speed.  The CD-R media used is a 40X certified Memorex Music CD-R manufactured by Ritek. (Thanks to Memorex USA for sending us this media.)

The ASUS DRW-2014L1T will permit “On-The-Fly” copying at all tested speeds through 16X; the drive does not support reading data form the Lead-in or Lead-Out.

DVD reading performance

We utilized Nero CD-DVD Speed to measure the reading performance.  We will to the reading performance testing on various types of DVD discs.  To start off with we will test the ASUS DRW-2014L1T at reading “Pressed” DVD-Video discs both Single Layer and Double Layer.

DVD-Video Single Layer

DVD-Video Double Layer

The ASUS DRW-2014L1T read the SL DVD-Video disc at 16.18X and the DL DVD-Video disc at 8.25X.  The specifications for the ASUS DRW-2014L1T state that the drive should read DVD-ROM SL Video at 16X speed and DVD-ROM DL Video at 8X; let’s take a look below to see how this drive compared with other we have tested:

DVD+R/RW  

For testing the read speed of DVD+R and DVD+RW discs we used Verbatim 16X DVD+R and 8X DVD+RW.  Both Discs were written with 4.38GB of data using Nero CD-DVD Speed.  (Thanks to Verbatim USA for sending us this media.) See the results below:

DVD+R

DVD+RW

We have prepared this table to show you how the ASUS DRW-2014L1T reads DVD+R/RW media as compared with other drives:

The ASUS DRW-2015L1T is among the slowest of our drives at reading DVD+R/RW media.

DVD-R/RW  

For testing the DVD-R and DVD-RW reading performance we used Verbatim discs we used Verbatim 16X DVD-R and 6X DVD-RW.  (Thanks to Verbatim USA for sending us this media.) Below you will find our test results.

DVD-R

DVD-RW

We have also provided this table to show how the ASUS DRW-2014L1T compares with other drives for reading these media:

Here again the ASUS DRW-2014L1T is among the slowest of our tested drives at reading DVD-R/RW media.

DVD±R DL

For this test we used a Verbatim 8X DVD+R DL disc and a Verbatim 4X DVD–R DL disc filled with 7.96GB of data.  (Thanks to Verbatim USA for sending us this media.)

DVD+R DL

DVD-R DL

The ASUS DRW-2014L1T reads both media at 8X. 

DVD-RAM

For this part of our test we are using a Maxell 12x DVD-RAM filled with 4.27GB of data. Our test results are found below:

The ASUS DRW-2014L1T will read DVD-RAM at 12X; reading this disc in 5 minutes and 37 seconds.

Features & Technology

CD-R/RW Writing Performances