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| Posted by | Wesley Novack |
| Posted on | 31/12/04 07:38 |
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Reading performance:
For these tests we will use Nero CD/DVD-Speed to read various CD and DVD's, including audio discs and DVD-media. As already mentioned in the introduction, this drive sports a specified read speed of 16X for DVD's and 48X for CD's.
Pressed discs:
For this test we used a pressed CD-ROM disc containing Canon Digital Camera Solution Disk ver 9.0 that is 73:12.38 minutes long. Below you will see the produced result:
The drive had absolutely no trouble reading the Canon disc. To see how this compares to other drives, look below:
| Pressed | Average | Start | End | Seek | Seek | Seek |
| Lite-On LDW-411S | 29.29x | 17.17x | 38.81x | 94ms | 114ms | 192ms |
| BenQ DW822A | 30.94x | 17.28x | 40.99x | 101ms | 113ms | 166ms |
| NEC ND-2510A | 29.36x | 16.82x | 38.90x | 112ms | 116ms | 169ms |
| Lite-On SOHW-1633S | 35.01x | 19.73x | 46.39x | 121ms | 126ms | 214ms |
| Mad Dog MD-16XDVD9 | 34.10x | 19.54x | 45.17x | 109ms | 127ms | 187ms |
| Memorex | 34.94x | 20.05x | 46.33x | 122ms | 130ms | 221ms |
The Memorex F16 was one of the fastest CD-ROM readers of all the drives tested. The Memorex F16 did not impress us with the seek times, since it reported the highest numbers compared to the other drives.
CD-Recordable Discs:
For this test we made a copy of the original Canon Digital Camera Solution CD. The disc we used was a Verbatim 48X certified CD-R disc manufactured by Mitsubishi Chemicals Corporation.
There were no problems reading the CD-R disc copy and it had no problems reaching near 48x. The usual comparison table is found below.
| CD-R | Average | Start | End | Seek | Seek | Seek |
| Lite-On LDW-411S | 30.62x | 18.06x | 40.37x | 107ms | 138ms | 203ms |
| BenQ DW822A | 32.24x | 18.46x | 42.40x | 97ms | 110ms | 161ms |
| NEC ND-2510A | 30.59x | 17.91x | 40.32x | 117ms | 119ms | 169ms |
| Lite-On SOHW-1633S | 36.54x | 21.42x | 48.13x | 123ms | 153ms | 229ms |
| Mad Dog MD-16XDVD9 | 35.49x | 20.74x | 46.78x | 125ms | 131ms | 189ms |
| Memorex | 36.39x | 21.63x | 47.96x | 127ms | 155ms | 231ms |
The Memorex F16 achieved excellent reading speeds with the CD-R disc. But once again, the seek times were higher than the other drives.
CD-ReWritable discs:
We made a copy of the original Canon disc, this time we used a Verbatim High Speed (12X) CD-RW disc made by Mitsubishi Chemicals Corporation.
The drive reads CD-RW discs slightly above 32x speed, to see how this compares to other drives; look below:
| CD-RW | Average | Start | End | Seek | Seek | Seek |
| Lite-On LDW-411S | 25.23x | 14.66x | 33.41x | 106ms | 135ms | 210ms |
| BenQ DW822A | 32.88x | 18.43x | 43.43x | 96ms | 107ms | 165ms |
| NEC ND-2510A | 25.98x | 14.94x | 34.40x | 119ms | 122ms | 185ms |
| Lite-On SOHW-1633S | 24.22x | 13.98x | 32.07x | 124ms | 149ms | 234ms |
| Mad Dog MD-16XDVD9 | 25.92x | 14.93x | 34.33x | 126ms | 135ms | 200ms |
| Memorex | 24.15x | 14.02x | 31.97x | 128ms | 158ms | 238ms |
The Memorex F16 performed average with CD-RW reading speeds. It can't compete with the drives that read CD-RW discs at full speed, such as the BenQ DW822A. We also once again notice the higher seek times.
Audio - Digital Audio Extraction:
To test the digital audio extraction performance of the Memorex F16, we again used Nero CD/DVD-Speed to measure the transfer rate. The audio disc we used is approximately 74 minutes long (74:02:70).
This drive is able to read Audio CDs at full speed! Let us compare the results with other drives:
| Audio | Average | Start | End | Seek | Seek | Seek |
| Lite-On LDW-411S | 30.84x | 18.07x | 39.28x | 109ms | 120ms | 192ms |
| BenQ DW822A | 32.55x | 15.25x | 43.14x | 102ms | 118ms |