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Plextor PX-W4824A
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Posted by Dennis
Posted on 26/09/02 18:39
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In this part of our Plextor PX-W4824A review we'll test how fast the drive can write different CD-Recordable media. Of course we tested every disc afterwards if errors had occurred as you can see on page 8: write quality. We used a 650MB avi-file and various files to make a total file size of 700MB. We used Nero Burning Rom to write this file in DAO (Disc At Once) mode. Every disc was finalized and set-up as non-multisession. For our tests we've tried to use media certified for many different certified speeds (16/24/32/40/48). In the table below we've, as always, summed it all up for you:

Media Compatibility

The Plextor PX-W4824A drive could write most discs at a higher speed than they were certified for except for the older 32X certified Taiyo Yuden media. The maximum speed of 48X was only reached with the CD-Recordables that were delivered with the Plextor drive but future firmware upgrades will support more media at the maximum speed.

When writing CD-ReWriteable media we had an average result. All discs could be written at 10X and thus none at 12X. We tested two types of ultra-speed media (the Plextor and the Yamaha/Mitsibishi discs) and both discs could be written at 24X without problems.

To conclude our review we will take a look at how far the Plextor PX-W4824A can overburn and if it can handle 8cm CD-R's and 99 minute CD-R's...

CD-(M)RW Tests
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Posted by on Thursday 26 September 2002 22:23
Negative Points: DAE and CD-RW reading is limited to about 42X
AND YOU WOULD CALL THIS BAD?!?!?!? i know it is *a*little* different from what they claimed, but it is a fuc*ing high reading speed! :)
Posted by cdrfreak on Friday 27 September 2002 00:50
Great review as always! :)

I wonder why Plextor bothered to implement this SpeedRead thing when the difference is so small (max. 46x vs. max. 42x)
Surely this small difference can't be so much more dangerous?
Other than that it seems like a huge improvement over the Plextor 40x.

btw. why not use CD Speed 1.00, it supports 99min discs.
Posted by on Friday 27 September 2002 10:18
@cico85: Plextor drives have always been considered to be the fastest DAE drives available. Their 40X model could already do DAE at 42X so we were a little disappointed. There are other drives nowadays that can do DAE at 48X without problems. So yes it's a negative point.

@cdrfreak: Nero CD Speed v1.00 didn't work so well for us as we had some problems with our tests. Transfer Speed didn't go faster than 24X for instance.. So for the time being we decided to use good old v0.85e.
Posted by roadworker on Friday 27 September 2002 16:31
Good review!
The Plex seems to b a decent drive.....IF the price was lower..there are drives that can "handle" much more protections,for a much lower price,....
Sorry Plextor,you can't sell a drive to me..:4
Posted by on Wednesday 30 October 2002 14:49
Nice review!

I already ordered one. The price €134,95 was also nice ....... :*
Posted by tkvetter on Thursday 14 November 2002 23:06
Please Compare the plextor 48/24/48 to the teac 540A. I am deciding between the two. i don't care as much about speed, or noise as i do about good backups of a large variety of media. Compare, Contrast.... Thanks for you help in advance....
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Posted by csik (guest) on Monday 09 April 2007 11:22
Posted by ian (guest) on Sunday 20 May 2007 03:55
i searched how do i copy copy-protected playstation discs. I already have a dvd burner, I don't want another one, I just wanna know how I can copy games which i cannot copy eg. tomb raider 2. hit me back soon. thanx.
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