DVD reading performance:

Again, we will use Nero CD-Speed to measure the reading performance, this time for various types of DVD discs.

DVD – DVD-Video:

For our DVD reading performance tests we are going to start with a Single and Double 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

The Lite-On DH-401S reads pressed DVD-VIDEO SL at 12x and pressed DVD-VIDEO DL at 8x.

DVD - DVD+R/RW:  

For this test we used a Verbatim 16x DVD+R and a Verbatim 8x DVD+RW with 4.38GB of data. (Thanks to Verbatim Germany for sending us this media). Below are the results:

DVD+R

DVD+RW

The Lite-On DH-401S reads DVD+R at 12x and DVD+RW at 8x.

DVD – DVD-R/RW:

For this test we used a Verbatim 16X DVD-R disc and a Verbatim 6X DVD-RW disc filled with 4.38GB of data. (Thanks to Verbatim Germany for sending us this media). Our test results are found below:

DVD-R

DVD-RW

The Lite-On DH-401S reads DVD-R at 12x and DVD-RW at 8x.

DVD – DVD±R DL:

For this test we used a Verbatim 8x DVD+R DL disc and a Verbatim 8x DVD-R DL disc filled with 7.96GB of data. (Thanks to Verbatim Germany for sending us this media). Our test results are found below:

DVD+R DL

DVD-R DL

The Lite-On DH-401S reads DVD+R DL and DVD-R DL at 8x speed.

On the next page we will take a look at the drives Blu-ray Reading Performance...

CD Reading Performance

Blu-ray Reading performance