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We're almost done with our VisionTek Xtasy 48X review and we'll, as always, conclude with our 'special discs' tests. These include an overburning test and a test to see if the VisionTek/Lite-On drive can write 8cm CD-R's. First of all, the overburning test:

Overburning:

We used Infiniti 99min/900mb CD-R's for our tests that were certified up to 32x 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 you can see in above screenshot the VisionTek Xtasy 48X drive has no problems overburning and can fully overburn to 99 minutes. Now let's have a look at how well the drive can read an overburned disc:

As you can see from the screenshot the VisionTek drive has no problems whatsoever reading the overburned disc. The drive even reaches an amazingly high speed of 52.82x!

8cm CD-R Tests:

To conclude our VisionTek Xtasy 48X 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:

• 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)

We set-up up Nero Burning Rom to burn a compilation of about 200MB and started the write process. The disc was written without any problems. We of course did a final test with Nero CD Speed to verify if the disc was written correctly:

As you can see from the screenshot the 8cm disc is read without any problems at full speed.

That concludes our VisionTek Xtasy 48X review! Let's go to our final words and conclusions.