Sony BDU-X10S detail information

Reading performance  

We will use Nero CD/DVD-Speed to read various BD, CD and DVD Discs; including audio discs and DVD-media.

Not let’s take a look at CD reading performance……

Pressed CD-ROM discs

We used an original pressed World of Warcraft CD-ROM disc containing 74.22.42 minutes of data.

The Sony BDU-X10S reached 24.08x, so how does that compare with other Hi-Def drives, let’s take a look here:

The Sony BDU-X10S reads slower than most of the other drives in reading Pressed CD media.

CD-Recordable Discs

For this test we used a Data CD-R that we created with Nero CD-DVD Speed in “create data disc” mode. We used a Taiyo Yuden 48X certified manufactured by Taiyo Yuden. (Thanks to Rima.com for sending us this media.)

The Sony BDU-X10S reached the speed of 14.99X when reading a full CD-R data disc. Let’s take a look on how that compares with other Hi-Def drives.

With our CD-Recordable Disc the Sony BDU-X10S reads slower than the other drives.

CD-Rewritable discs

For the CD-Rewritable tests we created a Data CD using Nero CD-DVD Speeds’ “create data disc”.  We used a Verbatim 32X CD-RW. (Thanks to Verbatim USA for sending us this media)

The Sony BDU-X10S reaches a read speed of 24.57x; let’s compare this with our other tested Hi-Def drives:

With our CD-Rewritable Disc the Sony BDU-X10S is on average with the rest of the field.

Audio – Digital Audio Extraction

To test digital audio extraction performance with the Sony BDU-X10S we used Nero CD-DVD Speed to measure the transfer rate; the pressed audio disc we used is 79:47:10 minutes in length.

The Sony BDU-X10S reached the speed of 24.69x when reading our Audio-CD; let’s take a look on how that compares with our other tested drives below:

The Sony BDU-X10S performed a little below the average in the Audio Extraction test.

Audio Extraction:

For this test we used EAC (Exact Audio Copy) to test the drives Audio extraction performance. As we can see from the screenshot below, the drive supports accurate stream and C2 error info and doesn’t support caching.

Below is the results produced by EAC:

Burst mode

Secure mode

The Sony BDU-X10S performed close to its rated speed in burst mode but was extremely slow in secure mode.

DVD reading performance

DVD-ROM “Pressed Disc”

We utilized Nero CD-DVD Speed to measure the reading performance.  We will test the reading performance on various types of DVD discs.  To start off with we will test the Sony BDU-X10S at reading “Pressed” DVD-Video discs both Single Layer and Double Layer.

DVD-Video Single Layer

DVD-Video Double Layer

The Sony BDU-X10S reads the SL DVD-Video disc at 7.82x and the DL DVD-Video disc at  7.88x. Let’s take a look below to see how the drive compared with other we have tested:

The Sony BDU-X10S performed well in reading both SL and DL DVD Video discs posting better than average scores.

DVD+R/RW  

For testing the read speed of DVD+R and DVD+RW discs we used Verbatim 16X DVD+R and a Ritek 8X DVD+RW. Both Discs were written with 4.38GB of data using Nero CD-DVD Speed.  (Thanks to Verbatim USA and Ritek USA for sending us this media.) See the results below:

DVD+R

DVD+RW

We have prepared this table to show you how the Sony BDU-X10S reads DVD+R/RW media as compared with other drives:

The Sony BDU-X10S is one of the slower drives at reading our DVD+R and DVD+RW test disc.

DVD-R/RW  

For testing the DVD-R and DVD-RW reading performance we used Verbatim discs we used Verbatim 16X DVD-R and a Ritek 6X DVD-RW.  (Thanks to Verbatim USA and Ritek USA for sending us this media.) Below you will find our test results.

DVD-R

DVD-RW

We have provided this table to show how the Sony BDU-X10S compares with other drives for reading DVD-R and DVD-RW media:

Here again the Sony BDU-X10S is one of the slower drives at reading our DVD-R and DVD-RW test disc.

DVD±R DL  

For this test we used a Verbatim DVD±R DL discs filled with data. (thanks to Verbatim USA for providing us with this media)

DVD+R DL

DVD-R DL

We have provided this table to show how the Sony BDU-X10S compares with other drives for reading the DVD±R DL media:

Here the Sony BDU-X10S did a good job at reading our DVD±R DL test disc reading both at just over 8x..

Blu-ray reading performance

For this test we will read a SL and DL BD-ROM:

BD-ROM SL

The Sony BDU-X10S read our SL BD-ROM at its rated speed of 2x.

BD-ROM DL

Reading of BD-ROM DL is done at the drives rated speed of 2x.

For this test we will read both BD-R and BD-RE discs:

BD-R

The Sony BDU-X10S did a good job of reading our BD-R disc at its rated speed of 2X.

BD-RE

The Sony BDU-X10S did a good job of reading our BD-RE disc at its rated speed of 2X.

Video Playback  

We will now test the playability of several movie formats. Our first disc an Pressed Single Layer DVD Video "The Mask", this Pressed DVD Video played with no skipping or stuttering. Our next DVD is an Pressed Dual Layer DVD Video "Titanic"; this disc is quite large at 7.50 GB. While playing this video we were able to skipped through the chapters with no issues, the playback was smooth with no stuttering or skipping.

Now moving along to our Blu-ray discs we loaded a Pressed Blu-ray Dual Layer video of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End; this disc is quite large at 46.61GB's, the Video playback was very smooth as was the audio. All through the loading and playback of these discs the drive was very quiet with the exception of some clicking during the initial loading of the disc and while seeking though to various sections of a disc.

This concludes our Sony BDU-X10S review, lets head on to the last page to read our Conclusion…

Features & Technology

Conclusion