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The Lite-On LDW-411S supports writing Ultra-Speed CD-RW discs at 24X speed. It supports writing DVD+RW discs at 4x and DVD-RW discs at 2X. This drive has higher CD-RW and DVD+RW writing speeds than most of the competitors and thus has an advantage.

Re-Writing data:

For this test we set up a new compilation containing 650Mb of data in Nero Burning ROM. We used the DAO (Disc At Once) writing method. In the screenshot below you can see the burn process completed successfully.

The Lite-On LDW-411S used 3 minutes and 43 seconds for writing the disc at 24X, let us compare this to some other writers; The Lite-On LTC-48161H using CAV(Constant Angular Velocity) writing tech used 4 minutes and 56 seconds to write the disc, the Plextor PX-708A which uses P-CAV(Partial Constant Angular Velocity) writing strategy used 3 minutes and 43 seconds to write the disc. This makes it exactly as fast as the plextor and much faster than the Lite-On combo drive.

And here is the writing time for writing 4.4Gb of data to a 2X Memorex DVD-RW disc:

The drive used 29 minutes and 22 seconds to write the disc at 2X. Compared to the Memorex Dual-X (needed 28 minutes and 51 seconds to write the disc) this is actually a bit slower.

And finally here is the writing time for writing 4.4Gb of data to bundled Ricoh 4X DVD+RW disc:

The Lite-On LDW-41S used 14 minutes and 19 seconds to write the disc, as a comparison the Aopen DRW-4410 used 14 minutes and 57 seconds.

CD-RW Packet writing:

Now it's time to take a look at the packet writing performance of the Lite-On LDW-411SB. We used Ahead's InCD 4 as well as B's Clip software to format and write 401 MB (421 003 264 bytes) data to the disc.

As we could see the performance with Ahead's InCD 4 is not that good, but with B's Clip the performance is considerably better. On the other side InCD 4 uses very short time to format the disc. Since B's clip showed better performance than InCD 4 we decided to continue using B's clip for the rest of the tests. We did also notice a problem with InCD, it have sometimes problems with mounting a formatted disc.

DVD-RW/DVD+RW packet writing tests:

We used B's Clip software to format and write 2Gb (2 217 820 160 bytes) data to the disc.

As we could see the drive performed very well when using B's Clip software.

Before we round off this review, let us run the drive through some advanced tests at next page…

DVD writing performance 2

Advanced tests