Reading performance

For these tests we will use Nero CD/DVD-Speed to read various BD, CD and DVD’s, including audio discs and DVD-media. As already mentioned in the introduction, this drive supports:

• BD-ROM SL (5x)
• BD-ROM DL (2x)
• BD-ROM (BD9) (8x)
• BD-R SL (5x)
• BD-R DL (2x)
• BD-RE SL (5x)
• BD-RE DL (2x)
• DVD-ROM SL 12x
• DVD-ROM DL (8x)
• CD-ROM 32x

Blu-ray reading performance:

BD-ROM:

We only had one pressed BD-ROM DL disc to test. The disc contained a high definition Blu-ray movie (Casino Royale)

The Pioneer BDC-S02BK read our DL BD-ROM at 2x reading speed.

BD-R:

The Pioneer BDC-S02BK read our BD-R disc at 5x reading speed.

BD-RE:

The Pioneer BDC-S02BK read our BD-RE disc at 5x reading speed.

CD reading performance:

CD-ROM:

For this test we used a pressed CD-ROM disc containing the Roxio Media Creator 7.5 install CD that is close to 75 minutes in length. Below you will see the produced result:

The Pioneer BDC-S02BK reached 33.40x read speed. Let’s compare it with some other drives below.

The Pioneer BDC-S02BK proved to be the slowest drive at reading our test CD-ROM. Access and seek times were not reported accurately with CD-Speed.

CD Recordable discs:

For this test we made a copy of the original Roxio Media Creator 7.5 install CD. The disc we used was a Ricoh 52X certified CD-R disc manufactured by Moser Baer India.

The Pioneer BDC-S02BK reached 33.40x read speed. Let’s compare it with some other drives below.

The Pioneer BDC-S02BK was once again the slowest drive with our CD-R test disc. Again, CD-Speed was unable to report access and seek times accurately.

CD Re-writable discs:

Again, we made a copy of the original Roxio Media Creator 7.5 install CD; this time we used a Verbatim Ultra Speed (32X) CD-RW disc made by Mitsubishi Chemicals Corporation.

The Pioneer BDC-S02BK reached 24.59x read speed. Let’s compare it with some other drives below.

The Pioneer BDC-S02BK proved to be the slowest drive when reading CD-RW media. And once again CD-Speed was unable to report access times accurately.

100 minute CD-R:

The Pioneer BDC-S02BK reached 33.90x when reading our test 100 minute CD-R and had no problems reading our 100 minute test CD.

Audio – Digital Audio Extraction:

To test the digital audio extraction performance of the Pioneer BDC-S02BK, again we used Nero CD/DVD-Speed to measure the transfer rate. The audio disc we used is slightly larger than the disc used for the other tests, to be exact it’s nearly 79 minutes in length (78:53:31).

The Pioneer BDC-S02BK reached 33.68x when reading our test audio disc. Let’s compare it with some drives below.

The Pioneer BDC-S02BK was the slowest drive when reading our audio test CD. Once again CD-Speed did not report access times correctly.

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.

Pressed 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 OTP)

DVD Video (double layer PTP)

The Pioneer BDC-S02BK is riplocked and read our single layer disc at 5x and our double layer test discs at 5x

DVD – DVD+R/RW:

For this test we used a Verbatim 16X DVD+R and a RICOH 8X DVD+RW with about 4.4Gb of data. Below are the results:

DVD+R

DVD+RW

The Pioneer BDC-S02BK performed about average when reading our test DVD+R/RW test discs. Now let’s see how it will perform with DVD-R/RW.

DVD – DVD-R/RW:

For this test we used a Verbatim 16X DVD-R disc and a Verbatim 6X DVD-RW disc filled with about 4.4Gb of data. Our test results are found below:

DVD-R

DVD-RW

There are hardly any differences in the speed, compared to reading the DVD+R/RW discs.

Once again the Pioneer BDC-S02BK performed about average when reading our DVD-R/RW test discs.

DVD±R DL discs:

DVD+R DL:

The Pioneer BDC-S02BK read our DVD+R DL test disc at 8x reading speed.

DVD-R DL:

The Pioneer BDC-S02BK read our DVD-R DL test disc at 8x reading speed.

DVD-RAM:

The Pioneer BDC-S02BK read our DVD-RAM disc at 5x using a CLV reading method.

Summary:

The Pioneer BDC-S02BK was not the fastest CD/DVD reader we have reviewed but the drive had no problems reading all of our CD/DVD and Blu-ray discs.

Now let’s head over to the next page where we will test CD-R/RW writing performance……

Features

CD-R/RW Writing performance