Optiarc AW-G170A detail information

Writing Data CD-R discs:

The specifications state that the drive should be able to write CD-Rs at 48x and CD-RWs at 32x:

The Sony AW-G170A uses CAV (Constant Angular Velocity) to write CD-R's at 48x. This gave an average writing speed of 35.54x and a writing time of 3 minutes and 09 seconds and excellent write quality with our Taiyo Yuden media.

The Sony AW-G170A uses CAV (Constant Angular Velocity) to write CD-R's at 48x. This gave an average writing speed of 35.66x and a writing time of 3 minutes and 08 seconds and excellent write quality with our Verbatim media.

Writing Data CD-RW discs:

The Sony AW-G170A uses Z-CLV, (Zone-Constant Linear Velocity) to write CD-RWs at 32x. The average speed is 29.72x and total writing time is 3 minutes and 33 seconds.

Now lets head on to the next page were we will test DVD Recordable performance…..

Reading performance

Writing performance DVD+R/RW