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CD Write Tests
1.
CD-DVD Speed - CDR Media
The
I/O Magic Media Station Writer is capable of burning CDRs at a blazing
speed of 52x. A variety of media was used to both capture write times
and check for any compatibility issues.
On average, the drive starts writing to the
media at 23x and had no problems hitting its maximum write speed of 52x.
This is truly one fast CD writer, burning a full
695MB of data in just 2:39min. That was the fastest write speed I was able to
achieve out of all the discs tested. Below is a list of the results with
all media used.
|
CDR Brand |
Write Speed |
Write Time |
| Verbatim (Super Azo) 48X |
52X |
2:42 |
| Ritek (Ridata Brand) 48X |
52X |
2:39 |
| Imation 40X |
52X |
2:47 |
| Philips 40X |
40X |
3:26 |
| FUJI 32X |
40X |
3:17 |
| Sony 32X |
40X |
3:16 |
The compatibility results were actually pretty
good. The drive was able to write at 52x to our 48x media, which is
what I was really looking for. The discs we used that were rated at
32x did burn at 40x without any playback issues. Based on these
results, the only disc this drive seems to have trouble with is the Philips
40x media. Not only is it the slowest of the bunch, but when used in
the digital audio extraction tests, it reported numerous errors and just
wasn't reliable. I
think as long as you keep this drive away from these particular discs,
you'll be quite pleased with the results!
2.
CD-DVD Speed - CDRW Media
For some reason, I could not perform write
transfer tests on CDRW media. However, the Media Station Writer was
able to write to Ultra Speed 16x-24x CDRW media at 20x. Two discs were
used in our test and the results are shown below.
|
CDR Brand |
Write Speed |
Write Time |
| Ritek 24x CDRW |
20X |
4:37 |
| Memorex (Ultra
Speed) |
20X |
4:42 |
3. 99min CDR's and Overburning
The I/O Magic Media Station Writer does not support overburning or 99min
CDRs. We were unable to overburn using two brands of 99min CDR media.
Aside from the lack of over-burning, this drive did fairly well in our write
tests as well. While it was unable to write to high speed CDRW media
at 24x, it was at least able to write to these discs at 20x, which resulted
in very similar write times.
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