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DVD reading performance:

Again we will use Nero CD-Speed to measure the reading performance, this time for various types of DVD discs. The drive should read pressed single layer DVD-discs at 12X.

DVD - DVD-Video:

For our DVD reading performance tests we are going to start with a single and dual 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. Notice: Even if some of these discs contains DVD-Video they are identified as DVD-ROM discs for a reason or another, it's a disc issue and not a drive issue, we did several tests and this do not seem to affect the results of the tests in any way.

As we could see the drive is locked at 5X CAV reading for both disc types. This is done to reduce noise when watching DVD-Movies, to see how the transfer rate is on a Data DVD we used the Baldurs gate DVD-ROM:

As we could see there is no speed limit when reading the data DVD-ROM and it would probably reached 12X if the DVD-ROM disc completely filled with data.

*Notice that newer versions of CD-speed actually report the highest speed as the end reading speed for the dual layer disc.

Since the drive is limited to 2x-5x CAV it of course places last, noticed that it's only speed limited for DVD-Video discs, it will read data DVD-ROM discs at full speed.

DVD - DVD+R(W):

For this test we used a Taiyo Yuden 4X DVD+R and a Ricoh 4X DVD+RW with about 4,4Gb of data. Below are the results:

The rive was able to reach about 8x on the end of completely filled discs, how this compares to the competitors is found below:

It came out slower than the LG and Plextor PX-708A but not by much, it's faster than the other drives since they are locked at 6X reading only.

DVD - DVD-R/RW:

For this test we used a Taiyo Yuden 4X DVD-R disc and a Verbatim 2X DVD-RW disc filled with about 4,4Gb of data. Our test results are found below:

As we could see out from these graphs, the drive performed nearly the same with DVD-R/RW discs as with DVD+R/RW discs. Below is a comparison table:

Again it's slightly slower than the plextor and the LG, but not much.

To sum up the reading performance: It's good for data discs, but a bit slow on music and CD-RW discs. The speed is also limited with Video DVD-discs, but else is ok.

But now it's time to head on to a more interesting part: Writing CD-R discs…