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Posted by Jan S.
Posted on 06/06/05 17:35
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Reading performance
 

For these tests we will use Nero CD/DVD-Speed to read various DVD-media. As already mentioned in the introduction, this drive supports:

  • DVD-ROM (SL) at 16x
  • DVD-ROM (DL) at 8x

DVD reading performance:

We will use Nero CD-Speed to measure the reading performance, this time for various types of DVD discs. The drive should read pressed single layer DVD-discs at 16X.

DVD - DVD-Video:

For our DVD reading performance tests we are going to start with a single and dual layered DVD video discs. While only 1X speed is required to watch DVD movies, it's useful to be able to read the discs at higher speeds if you're going to extract (rip) the content of the disc to your hard drive.


DVD-Video Single Layer

 
DVD-Video Double Layer

As we could see the drive can read Single Layer DVD-Video at full speed (16x), and Double Layer DVD-Video at 8x. To see how the transfer rate is on a Data DVD we used the 'Half-Life 2" DVD-ROM:

As we could see, there are some problems at the end of the disc. We would also like to mention that firmware US05 and previous could not read or recognize the German Half-Life 2 DVD-ROM, but this was fixed in the firmware US06.

DVD
Video

Average 
Read
Speed
(SL)

Start
 Read 
Speed
(SL)

End
 Read 
Speed
(SL)

Average 
Read
Speed
(DL)

Start
 Read 
Speed
(DL)

End
 Read 
Speed
(DL)

Philips
ED16DVDR

9.62x

6.77x

6.52x

6.19x

3.45x

8.22x

AOpen
DUW1608/ARR

12.04x

6.71x

16.05x

6.61x

3.68x

8.79x

LG
GSA-4163B

7.62x

4.26x

10.16x

6.16x

3.44x

8.18x

Lite-On
SHOW-1653S

11.96x

6.77x

15.94x

6.15x

3.46x

8.19x

LG
GSA-5160D

7.60x

4.12x

10.13x

6.14x

3.38x

8.16x

ASUS
DRW-1604P

3.92x

2.17x

5.25x

3.94x

2.19x

5.25x

Samsung
TS-E552U

11.50x

6.78x

13.11x

6.41x

3.57x

8.51x

Philips
DVDR16LS

11.97x

6.61x

15.97x

6.02x

3.35x

8.01x

NU
HDW-164

6.40x

3.54x

8.53x

5.87x

3.26x

7.81x

Samsung
TS-H522u

11.99x

6.70x

15.51x

6.40x

3.58x

8.51x

The Samsung TS-H552U is among the fastest drive to read back both Single Layer DVD-Video and average on Double Layer DVD-Video.

So let us head on to next page and read about DVD-Writing performance…
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