Nero CD-DVD Speed V3.80 and Nero InfoTool V3.01 released

April 15, 2005

ItalianJob used our news submit to tell us about a new release of
the popular optical drive benchmarking tool, Nero CD-DVD
Speed. This tool can be used to test the
capabilities of your CD or DVD drive and we use this software in our
reviews to test the performance and make comparisons. Some of the tests include: Transfer rate, Seek times,
CPU usage, Burst rate, DAE quality, Spinup/spindown
time.

Nero
CD-DVD Speed V3.80

Create Data Disc: added support for ISO
files

Bitsetting: added support for certain
AccessTek drives

Added MID/ATIP code to saved HTML file

Added option to include MID/ATIP code
with filename

Improved layer break detection for
recordable DVDs

Disc Quality test :

Added recorder information for
DVD-R/DVD-RW discs which have not been burned with the Create Data Disc
function

Added quality score algorithm for
certain drives

Small improvements and bug fixes Nero
InfoTool V3.01

Nero InfoTool V3.01 Changes:

DVD-R DL read feature can be detected seperately

Hurry on over to this
page at the CDSpeed 2000 website to snag a download of these tools. They're
as handy as pockets on a shirt! Thank you ItalianJob for the
heads up to everyone on this.

Source: CD Speed 2000