We will concentrate us with the first tests on the reading capabilities. We will then discover if the reading speed really reaches the 40x.
Our test machine is the following:
- Asus CUSL2 Moederbord
- Intel PIII1000
- Harddisk Maxtor 30GB ATA 66
- 384MB PC133 SDRAM
- Hercules Phrophet 4500 VGA kaart met 64MB.
- 1 LiteOn 24102B
- 1 Plextor 241040A
- 1 Yamaha CRW2100
Speed test:
For our first test we took a CD-Rom benchmark-Utility to measure the drive’s speed. Transferspeed is developed by Smart Projects (Peter Van Hoof) and is freeware
Transferspeed is downloadable at the Smart Projects homesite.
Transferspeedtest:
This utility will measure the overal speed of the drive and the amount of kbytes per second.
The LiteOn 24x seems to perform very well, though a littlebit slower than Plextor.
The latest firmware 5S54 gives just a little bit more performance…
The test CD we used to make this test is F-22 LighningIII from Novalogic. It is a PC-data CD of 77min55sec or 684MB without any real protection. Just a routine that check’s wether the CD is in the drive and an Illegal TOC (table of contents).
Average KB/sec test: The average amount of data that is being read in KB/sec. The higher the better.
Average speed according to factor X: The average reading speed of the CD-drive according to factor X. The higher the better.
Highest measured speed according to factor X:The higher the better.
Highest measured Single Command Burst according to factor X: the average amount of data that is being read per second in the burst-mode. The higher the better.
Conclusion Transferspeed:
The LiteON 241040A is a very good data-reader, and just like Plextor it can act as a normal CD-Rom drive with above average transferspeeds and reliable readings. We used for this test a LiteON-241040 with firmware V5S0J and firmware V5S54. The newest firmware gives a little higher performance…
The minimal differences with the Plextor 24/10/40 are hardly noticable and are showing that LiteON actually does a very good job in reading CD’s.
On the next page we are going to take a look at some more speed testing with the neroCDSPEED utility.
