Reading performance

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

• DVD-ROM 16x
• CD-ROM 40x

Pressed discs:

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 DVR-115DBK reached 40.97x read speed. Let’s compare it with some other drives below.

The Pioneer DVR-115DBK proved to be one of the slowest drives at reading our test CD-ROM. Access and seek times were reasonable.

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 DVR-115DBK reached 40.33x read speed. Let’s compare it with some other drives below.

The Pioneer DVR-115DBK was among the slowest drives with our CD-R test disc.

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 DVR-115DBK reached 32.39x read speed. Let’s compare it with some other drives below.

The Pioneer DVR-115DBK was the slowest drive when reading CD-RW media.

100 minute CD-R:

The Pioneer DVR-115DBK failed to completely read our 100 minute test CD-R.

Audio – Digital Audio Extraction:

To test the digital audio extraction performance of the PIONEER DVR-115DBK, again we used Nero CD-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 DVR-115DBK reached 39.53x when reading our test audio disc. Let’s compare it with some drives below.

The Pioneer DVR-115DBK performed about average when reading our audio test CD.

Audio Extraction:

For this test we used EAC (Exact Audio Copy) to test the drives Audio extraction performance. As we can see from the screenshot below, the drive supports accurate stream and C2 error info and supports caching.

Below is the results produced by EAC:

Burst mode

Secure mode

The Pioneer DVR-115DBK performed well in burst mode but was much slower in secure mode.

Advanced audio – DAE quality test:

Before we move on to testing DVD read speeds, we will take a last audio test, and this time we used the “Advanced DAE Quality Test” feature in CD-Speed. For this test we used a CD-R media from RICOH (Thanks to RICOH Europe (BV) for sending us this media).

The extraction quality was excellent and performance was good. However, the drive was reported as to slow for “copy on the fly” above 4x speed. Also noted was the Pioneer DVR-115D does not support reading lead-in or lead-out.

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 16X.

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 DVR-115DBK is not riplocked and read our single layer disc at 16x and our double layer test discs at 12x

The Pioneer DVR-115DBK was about average when reading pressed DVD-Video media.

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 DVR-115DBK was well above average when reading DVD+R media and was the fastest drive when reading DVD+RW media.

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 DVR-115DBK was well above average when reading DVD-R media and the fastest drive when reading DVD-RW media.

DVD±R DL discs:

DVD+R DL:

The Pioneer DVR-115DBK read our DVD+R DL test disc at 12x reading speed.

DVD-R DL:

The Pioneer DVR-115DBK read our DVD-R DL test disc at 12x reading speed.

DVD-RAM:

The Pioneer DVR-115DBK read our DVD-RAM disc at 5x using a CLV reading method.

Summary:

The Pioneer DVR-115DBK has very good reading performance and proved to be a reliable reader throughout our tests.

Reviewers note:
The Pioneer DVR-115DBK will read DVD±R media at 16x reading speed, only when the media can be burned at 16x or faster by the drive. Media that is burned below this speed can only be read at 12x reading speed.

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

Features

CD-R/RW Writing performance