Pioneer DVR-A08XLA DVD Burner

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Reading performance

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 40X for CD's.

Pressed discs:

For this test we used a pressed CD-ROM disc containing PlexTools v1.08 that is exactly 74 minutes long. Below you will see the produced result:

The Pioneer DVR-A08XLA reached 41x at the end, to see how this compares to other drives, look below:

Pressed Discs	Average Read Speed	Start Read Speed	End Read Speed	Seek Times Random	Seek Times 1/3	Seek Times Full
NEC ND-2500A	31.00x	17.85x	41.05x	104ms	114ms	166ms
Pioneer DVR-107D	30.86x	18.36x	40.76x	122ms	142ms	281ms
NU DDW-082	32.36x	18.56x	42.70x	114ms	106ms	159ms
Lite-On SHOW-812S	30.56x	17.92x	40.26x	93ms	108ms	183ms
BTC DRW1108IM	27.56x	11.44x	37.9x	96ms	110ms	169ms
MSI DR8-A2	30.45x	17.77x	40.11x	94ms	101ms	154ms
Plextor PX-712A	35.71x	20.75x	47.11x	91ms	107ms	379ms
Philips DVDR1640P	29.98x	16.88x	39.89x	101ms	113ms	164ms
BenQ DW1620A	30.78x	17.52x	40.39x	99ms	116ms	167ms
Pioneer DVR-A08XLA	31.16x	18.30x	41.01x	124ms	142ms	280ms

The speed is very good compared to the other drives, but it takes the last place for seek times, which is a bit disappointing.

CD-Recordable Discs:

For this test we made a copy of the original PlexTools v1.08 CD. The disc we used was a Verbatim 48X certified CD-R disc manufactured by Mitsubishi Chemicals Corporation.

Again a good result, look below for a comparison table.

CD-R Discs	Average Read Speed	Start Read Speed	End Read Speed	Seek Times Random	Seek Times 1/3	Seek Times Full
NEC ND-2500A	30.77x	17.92x	40.61x	113ms	115ms	166ms
Pioneer DVR-107D	31.24x	18.26x	41.21x	123ms	143ms	282ms
NU DDW-082	32.34x	18.48x	42.65x	93ms	103ms	154ms
Lite-On SHOW-812S	30.87x	18.16x	40.74x	107ms	126ms	207ms
BTC DRW1108IM	32.33x	18.83x	42.69x	91ms	100ms	169ms
MSI DR8-A2	30.45x	17.71x	40.08x	81ms	94ms	142ms
Plextor PX-712A	35.80x	20.80x	49.99x	99ms	111ms	314ms
Philips DVDR1640P	30.68x	17.53x	40.51x	96ms	107ms	157ms
BenQ DW1620A	30.76x	17.60x	40.41x	96ms	106ms	157ms
Pioneer DVRA08XLA	31.13x	18.21x	41.08x	125ms	143ms	282ms

Same here as well, good speed but poor seek times.

CD-ReWritable discs:

Again we made a copy of the original PlexTools v1.08 disc, this time we used a Verbatim High Speed (10X) CD-RW disc made by Mitsubishi Chemicals Corporation.

The drive reads CD-RW discs at approximately 32x. Let us compare it to other drives below.

CD-RW Discs	Average Read Speed	Start Read Speed	End Read Speed	Seek Times Random	Seek Times 1/3	Seek Times Full
NEC ND-2500A	26.14x	14.96x	34.64x	120ms	124ms	187ms
Pioneer DVR-107D	25.55x	14.77x	33.87x	128ms	149ms	291ms
NU DDW-082	32.98x