What is the BEST DVD Writer?

[shalinda]

sony macho

 

[blood_brotha]

My Sony reads everything

 

[Anusha]

yup..
test it..
if you can..
i tested with a sony...

You put a Nero CD DVD Speed performance test screenshot. I will do the same

 

[samiram]

You put a Nero CD DVD Speed performance test screenshot. I will do the same

ok testing now..

 

[draco]

i think asus

 

[Anusha]

get a screenshot of the graph and the other values, before the tray out test. otherwise it will erase them from the memory :S
i have to do it all over again :S

 

[Anusha]

Here's on my 2.5 years+ old drive's performance... (It's a Sony drive, crossflashed to a Benq, if you were wondering why I'm testing on a Benq drive )

 

[nagaya]

I'm usind Samsung(Not Toshiba Samsung) SW240b 40x CD-RW for 5 years(Even it's working yet) and LG GSA-H10N DVD-RAM Drive (12x DVD-RAM,16x DVD-R)for abt 1.5 Years,

I got CD-RW drive for about 2000Batt (from Bangkok) at that time and DVD-RAM drive for abt Rs:5200(I got it from a friend's shop)

I've tried many places for DVD-RAM discs but no luck?Do u knw any place to buy them?

My friend have a Toshiba Samsung 18x DVD-RAM drive but it doesn't support DVD Multisession but LG supports(Even his LG DVD-ROM canread them)

Any,Talking about blank disks;MCC (Verbatim) rocks,I even have lot of Verbatim 5.25,3.5 disks and had many CD-RW,DVD-RW also,Great

 

[samiram]

get a screenshot of the graph and the other values, before the tray out test. otherwise it will erase them from the memory :S
i have to do it all over again :S

here is mine..
DVD-ROM

DVD-R

 

[Anusha]

here is mine..
DVD-ROM

DVD-R

Show us a full size DVD. Otherwise no point :S

Besides, if there are errors, then they are likely to show up in the latter part of the test where the angular velocity is higher.

 

[samiram]

Here's on my 2.5 years+ old drive's performance... (It's a Sony drive, crossflashed to a Benq, if you were wondering why I'm testing on a Benq drive )

wow you got the 16x neda..
but the access times are better on mine...


mine is about 3 years old...
nothing done to the firmware...

 

[samiram]

Show us a full size DVD. Otherwise no point :S

ok..
have to find a one..

 

[Anusha]

wow you got the 16x neda..
but the access times are better on mine...


mine is about 3 years old...
nothing done to the firmware...

true yours have better access times (but your DVD-R access times are low, and i don't have DVD-R to test... ...wait...i'll check and see )
i changed it to a benq to use its software...was testing the overspeed and those things...hehe. it doesn't really matter to me now. just don't see a reason to change back to a Sony.

 

[samiram]

true yours have better access times (but your DVD-R access times are low, and i don't have DVD-R to test... ...wait...i'll check and see )
i changed it to a benq to use its software...was testing the overspeed and those things...hehe. it doesn't really matter to me now. just don't see a reason to change back to a Sony.

hehe..
yeah DVD-R is a vista dvd..

most of my fully burnt DVD's..
have 8x reading speed..
i found a 16x one but..
its little bit scratched..
here is the result...

 

[nagaya]

What about mine? Nero CD-DVD Speed 4.9 on Windows Vista

 

[Anusha]

hehe..
yeah DVD-R is a vista dvd..

most of my fully burnt DVD's..
have 8x reading speed..
i found a 16x one but..
its little bit scratched..
here is the result...

That sux!

I found a DVD-R disk. Not a full 4.37GB, but comes close. Here is the result:




And my DVD-R seek times are better than yours

BTW, DVDs don't have a maximum read speed
They only have a maximum read speed
Read speed is determined by the drive only. If the drive doesn't like the disc, it will slow down.

 

[Anusha]

What about mine? Nero CD-DVD Speed 4.9 on Windows Vista

Those access times are wrong :S
They can't be than low (come on, how can it be faster than a hard disk and hard disks have about 13ms access times generally)

Anyway, seems like there is some jitter in the read curve. But it is way better than Samiram's DVD-R benchmark.

Can't really say anything about the end speed, because you tested a disc with more data. Mine could have reached that speed too, if the disc i tested was full.

 

[samiram]

That sux!

I found a DVD-R disk. Not a full 4.37GB, but comes close. Here is the result:




And my DVD-R seek times are better than yours

BTW, DVDs don't have a maximum read speed
They only have a maximum read speed
Read speed is determined by the drive only. If the drive doesn't like the disc, it will slow down.

ohh..
then my burner wont read dvd-r 16x ne...
how sad..
but still i have a better burst rate in both...
shame that we cant do a burning speed test..
its surely better than my nabour's sony...

 

[nagaya]

What is Type means?All other have CAV for it but I have P-CAV for it,What is the difference?

 

[Anusha]

ohh..
then my burner wont read dvd-r 16x ne...
how sad..
but still i have a better burst rate in both...
shame that we cant do a burning speed test..
its surely better than my nabour's sony...

Burst speed doesn't mean much, if at all anything. It is the "smooth" read curve that matters the most. It means that the drive doesn't have to slow down to retry reading a sector which it can't read at the line profile speed.

But why can't we test a burn? We can always put the Nero burn times when we burn a DVD next time. But I think all my DVDRs are 8x :S (of course I can overspeed, but I don't wanna waste Rs.60 if something goes wrong )