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Sony DRX-800UL External DVD Burner Review (page 5)

Category: Storage

by Andrey Kuznetcov

[ 09/15/2005 | 01:20 PM ]

Performance in CD WinBench 99

According to our well established testing methodology for CD WinBench 99, we use not only a brand name molded CD-ROM disc, but also two copies of this disc made on CD-R and CD-RW media.

Internal transfer graphs for Sony DRX-800UL:

• CD-ROM (graph )
• CD-R (graph )
• CD-RW (graph )

If you look at these graphs, you will easily notice that the drive encountered some problems with reading the final part of the initial test disc.

The diagrams above show a pretty expected result: the maximum performance is achieved in case of a CD-R disc, while the minimum in case of a CD-ROM disc, because of the above mentioned local reading issue. For the same very reason the shortest access time is typical of the CD-R and CD-RW cases.