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For these tests we will use Nero CD-DVD Speed to read various CD and DVD's, including audio discs and DVD-media.

Pressed discs:

For this test we used a pressed CD-ROM disc containing Canon Digital Camera Solution Disk Ver. 9.0. The capacity is close to 74 minutes long. Below you will see the produced result.

CD-Recordable Discs:

For this test, we used a Verbatim 48X certified CD-R disc manufactured by Mitsubishi Chemicals Corporation. 

 CD-Rewritable discs:

This time we used a Verbatim Ultra Speed+ (32X) CD-RW disc made by Mitsubishi Chemicals Corporation.

The drive is locked at 40x while reading CD-RWs

Audio CD:

We used Nero CD-DVD Speed to measure the transfer rate. The audio disc we used is approximately 74 minutes long.

The drive is locked at 24x while reading Audio-CDs. Most other drives can read Audio CD's at much higher speeds.

DVD reading performance:

Again, we will use Nero CD-DVD Speed to measure the reading performance, this time for various types of DVD discs. The drive should read pressed single layer DVD-discs at 16X.

DVD - DVD-Video:

For our DVD reading performance tests we are going to start with a single and dual layered DVD video discs. While only 1X speed is required to watch DVD movies, it's useful to be able to read the discs at higher speeds if you're going to extract (rip) the content of the disc to your hard drive.

DVD-Video Single Layer

DVD-Video Double Layer

As we can see, it reads DVD-Video Single layer at 16x and DVD-Video Double layer at 12x.

DVD - DVD+R/RW:

For this test, we used one DVD+R and one DVD+RW with about 4.4Gb of data. Below are the results:

DVD+R

DVD+RW

DVD - DVD-R/RW:

For this test, we used one DVD-R disc and one DVD-RW disc filled with about 4.4Gb of data. Our test results are found below:

DVD-R

DVD-RW

DVD - DVD+R DL:

For this test, we used one MKM001 DVD+R DL disc and the result can be found below:

Recordable DL discs are read at 12x maximum.

DVD - DVD-R DL:

For this test, we used one MKM01RD30 DVD-R DL disc and the result can be found below: