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If you've read our previous review of the internal Plextor PX-W4824A drive you will have noticed that the drive can overburn to about 95 minutes (94.55 minutes to be exact). We're not going to do the Nero CD Speed tests this time but instead we're just going to start a real overburning test. We're going to burn an audio compilation of 94 minutes and see if the external Plextor drive can write it.

For our test we used DataTrack 99 minute CD-Recordable discs and as you can see from the screenshot above the disc was written just fine in 4 minutes and 45 seconds. Now let's see if the Plextor drive can read the freshly recorded disc:

As you can see from the screenshot the disc was ready ok but it has a small problem at the end. No major problem since the complete disc was read and gets a DAE quality score of 10, which is the maximum score.

8cm CD-R Tests:

To conclude our Plextor PX-W4824TU review we're going to read and write an 8cm disc. We already showed you a screenshot of the Plextor PX-W4824A drive writing the 8cm discs so in this review of the external model we're going to show you a screenshot of the drive reading the disc. The 8cm discs we're using were 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:

ATIP: 97m 27s 19f Disc Manufacturer: Plasmon Data Systems, Ltd. Reflective layer: Dye (Short strategy; e.g. Phthalocyanine) Media type: CD-Recordable Recording Speeds: min. unknown - max. unknown Nominal Capacity: 201.86MB (23m 00s 00f / LBA: 103350)

The 8cm disc was read without any problems with a maximum read speed of 26.94X as you can also see in the Nero CD Speed screenshot below:

That concludes our Plextor PX-W4824TU review! Let's go to our final words and conclusions...