Performance in Nero Burning ROM

I burned DVD+RW and CD-RW discs with the help of Nero Burning ROM. A DVD+RW TDK 4x disc proved to be “inedible” for the GSA-4082B drive, so I had to use a DVD+RW Fujifilm 4x instead. As a CD-RW media, I took a Verbatim DataLifePlus Ultra-Speed 16-24x disc.

Then I wrote a DVD movie from an image file (3.987GB) on the hard drive to the DVD+RW at 4x speed. An MPEG-4 movie file (692M) was copied to the CD-RW at 16x (with the GSA-4082B) and at 24x (with the other two drives).

The Sony DW-D22A has a certain advantage in the DVD burn speed, but loses to the GSA-4160B in the CD-RW burn speed.

Performance in Nero CD-DVD Speed: CD Quality Test

Using the CD Quality Check test I checked out the quality of DVD+RW and CD-RW discs written with the help of Nero Burning ROM. This test only worked with the Sony DW-D22A, so I had to check out the quality in this drive.

Here’s the quality of the written CD-RW discs. The screenshot of the GSA-4160B has no C2 or C1 errors at all. The screenshot of the Sony DW-D22A has C1 errors, which are not critical. The disc written by the GSA-4082B has C2 errors – that’s rather bad.