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In this part of the review we'll take a look at the Plextor PX-S2410TU's CD-ReWriting abilities and its Mount Rainier (CD-MRW) support. For both tests we used Ahead's InCD version 3.51.91. For the erase tests we used Elaborate Bytes' CloneCD version 4.2.0.2.

Packet Writing:

We formatted a Plextor 650MB high-speed CD-RW disc which was delivered with the Plextor package. We fired up InCD, inserted the empty CD-ReWriteable disc in the recorder and measured the time it took from inserting the disc till it was ejected again. The InCD option to 'Format disc to CD-MRW' (Mt. Rainier) was been disabled. We will do the CD-MRW tests later on this page of our review.

When formatting was complete we measured the time it took for the drive to write our test folder of data (containing 400MB (419.791.239 bytes)). In the table below we've summed it all up for you:

The Plextor PX-S2410TU drive is one of the slower 10X CD-rewriters although the difference with the internal writers is small. When formatting the CD-RW disc with InCD the Plextor drive needed a lot more time than the other recorders, partially due to the drive's low read speeds. When erasing CD-RW media the Plextor PX-S2410TU drive performed very well. As a final test we erased the CD-RW disc and then wrote it using Nero Burning Rom. As you can see the drive now needed 5 minutes and 26 seconds to write the test data:

Mount Rainier Tests:

Since Plextor's PX-W4824A drive all new Plextor drive seem to support the new Mount Rainier format and the PX-S2410TU is no exception. Although the drive can only re-write at 10X, let's see how well it performs when using InCD version 3.51.91. If you want to read more on the CD-MRW format please read our Mount Rainier article.

In the table above we've only compared the Plextor PX-S2410TU drive to other 12X CD-ReWriters. As you can see from the results the external drive is one of the slowest drives and needs quite a lot of time to copy the 400MB of test data to the CD-RW, regardless if the disc had been completely formatted or not. Its reading performance was a little better but still one of the slowest drives we've seen.