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Posted by Robin van Lieshout
Posted on 21/05/02 11:47
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Media compatibility
 

Media compatibility:

Here in this table we will show what types of media that will be written at what speed. Testing methodology: We did a write transfer rate test with Nero CD-Speed 0.85e beta to see what speed it would write the media at. Since we did not actually write all types of media we did not test if the media was readable afterwards. But earlier in this review we tested the written quality of various types of media.


Summary:

The media compatibility was not very good since many of our 24X and 32X certified disc were not written at more than 16X or 20X. The drive definitively needs an updated firmware version to get around this problem.

Now continue to special CD-R disc tests…
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Very nice review OC-Freak! Enjoyed reading it. Oh and nice pics by the way ;)
The pics were really a pain in the ass to get them right in the backend system ;)

Great review though.
In order to backup Cactus Data Shield Audio CD's. I've found it helps to insert the CD with autorun enabled and allow it to start the built-in player. Stop the player, load CloneCD and copy the CD (make sure you don't have any fast error skip stuff enabled). This (for me at least) results in a copy of the CD which completely works 100% (and in fact can be backed up or ripped perfectly). :)
I have the 40x write version of this drive but can only reach around 20x in EAC burst mode.

Any ideas what's wrong?
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