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| Posted by | Dennis |
| Posted on | 26/09/02 18:39 |
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We're almost done with our Plextor PX-W4824A review and we'll, as always, conclude with our 'special discs' tests. These include an overburning test and a test to see if the latest Plextor drive can write 8cm CD-R's. If you've checked out the specifications of the Plextor drive you might have noticed this sentence:
Overburning up to 94.55 minutes
In this part of our review we're going to test if this is indeed the case and we'll of course also test if the drive can read 99 minute discs. Let's start with the overburning test:
Overburning:
We used DataTrack 99min/900MB CD-R's for our tests that were certified up to 40X writing. We used Nero CD Speed to do an overburn test. We set the 'Test capacity' to 99 minutes and started the test. You can see the achieved results below:
As expected the test capacity had to be set to about 94 minutes else the tests wouldn't start. When we set the test capacity to 94:56 minutes the test was completed successfully. Next we tried to read another overburned disc of 98 minutes but (also as expected) the Plextor PX-W4824A drive couldn't read them. When we tried an 88-minute audio disc the disc was read without problems:
8cm CD-R Tests:
To conclude our Plextor PX-W4824A review we tried to write 8cm CD-R's manufactured by Plasmon. The discs can hold a maximum of 23min/200MB and were certified up to 12x writing. Here's the ATIP information and a picture of the disc itself:
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We set-up up Nero Burning Rom to burn a compilation of about 195MB and started the write process. Unfortunately we had some problems with our test system (Nero Burning Rom crashed for some reason we're unsure of) but when we re-did the tests using a slow, but safe, 8X writing the 8cm disc was written without problems:
Next we tried to read the 8cm disc using the Plextor drive and the disc was read fine with an average speed of 23.03X.
That concludes our Plextor PX-W4824A review! Let's go to our final words and conclusions...
Media Compatibility
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!
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.
@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.
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
I already ordered one. The price €134,95 was also nice .......
T
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