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The Lite-On LTC-48161H supports Ultra-Speed CD-RW writing which is 24X, beside this it also supports the Mount Rainier packet-writing format. On this page of our review we'll see what these speeds mean when writing normal data compilations and when using the packet writing method.

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 LTC-48161H used 4 minutes and 56 seconds for writing the disc at 24X, let us compare it to the same two drives as we compared it to under the features part of this review. As we saw in the features part of this review it's theoretically the slower drive because of the lower average write speed since it uses CAV(Constant Angular Velocity) writing strategy. The Plextor PX-708A which uses P-CAV(Partial Constant Angular Velocity) writing strategy used 3 minutes and 43 seconds to write the disc and the Optorite CW-5205 using the CLV(Constant Linear Velocity) write strategy used 3 minutes and 45 seconds. Both these drives is over a minute faster than the Lite-On LTC-48161H due to their faster write strategies.

Packet writing:

Let us see if the slower write strategy also affects the packet writing results. For the packet-writing test we used Aheads InCD program to measure the time for formatting the disc and for writing 401 MB (421 003 264 bytes) of data to the CD-RW disc.

CD-RW packet writing performance:

The Lite-On LTC-48161H was clearly beaten by the other drives, most likely due to its slower writing strategy. But the drive gets a second chance to show muscles in out Mount Rainer test. If you want to read more about the CD-MRW format, please read our Mount Rainier article.

The Mount Rainer performance was quite good and it was just slightly slower at writing, at reading it was among the best.

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

Writing Performance

Advanced tests