Optorite TED80Y1 Portable CD/DVD Writer Review

 

Reading performance: 

---

For these tests we will use Nero CD-DVD Speed to read various CD and DVD’s, including audio discs and DVD-media. As already mentioned in the introduction, this drive supports reading:

• DVD-ROM 8x maximum by CAV
• CD-ROM 24x maximum by CAV

Pressed discs:

For this test we used a pressed CD-ROM disc containing an OEM Nero Installation Disc that is 76:51:03 minutes long. Below you can see the produced result:

The Optorite TED80Y1 had no trouble reading this disc, ultimately reaching 23.52x.

The following table sums it up:

The seek times are quite high.

CD-Recordable Discs:

For this test we made a copy of the OEM Nero Installation Disc. The disc we burned was an esa 52X certified CD-R disc manufactured by CMC Magnetics Corporation. 

The following table sums it up:

The Optorite TED80Y1 performance on CD-R is nearly identical to pressed CDs.

CD-Rewritable discs:

Again, for this test we made a copy of the OEM Nero Installation Disc. This time we used a Maxell High Speed (12x) CD-RW disc made by Mitsubishi Chemicals Corporation.

The following table sums it up:

Again the Optorite TED80Y1 performance on CD-RW is nearly identical to pressed CDs.

Audio ‘“ Digital Audio Extraction:

To test the digital audio extraction performance of the Optorite TED80Y1, again we used Nero CD-DVD Speed to measure the transfer rate. The audio disc we used is slightly shorter than the disc used for the other tests, to be exact it’s 74 minutes long (74:00:00).

The drive reached 23.65x reading the audio disc.

The following table sums it up:

The Optorite TED80Y1 performs to it’s full potential reading Audio-discs.

We performed additional Audio tests using Exact Audio Copy (EAC) to extract the audio to our hard drive. EAC lists the Optorite drive as supporting Accurate stream which is good but C2 error reporting is not supported. It also supports audio caching, which is a negative.

Below are the results produced by EAC:

 Burst mode

 Secure mode

The drive performed to it’s full potential in Burst mode while being much slower in Secure mode.

Advanced audio ‘“ DAE quality test:

Before we move on to testing DVD read speeds, we will take a last audio test, and will use the ‘Advanced DAE Quality Test” feature in CD-DVD Speed. For this test we used a 40x CD-R CMC Magnetics media from Memorex.

The Optorite TED80Y1 shows excellent Digital Audio Extraction quality and performance with all advanced features supported, making this drive suitable for fast and accurate backups of your Audio CDs! Being a USB drive it is a bit too slow to be used as the source reading drive for on-the-fly copying at 12x and 16x speeds.

DVD reading performance:

Again, we will use Nero CD-DVD Speed to measure the reading performance, this time for various types of DVD discs. The drive should read pressed single layer DVD-discs at 8X.

DVD ‘“ DVD-Video:

For our DVD reading performance tests we are going to start with a single and double layered DVD video discs. While only 1X speed is required to watch DVD movies, it’s useful to be able to read the discs at higher speeds if you’re going to extract (rip) the content of the disc to your hard drive.

DVD-Video Single Layer

 

DVD-Video Double Layer

As we can see the drive reads single layer DVD-Video at 8X CAV and double layer DVD-Video at 6x. To see how the transfer rate is on a Data DVD we used a PS/2 game DVD:

As we can see the Optorite TED80Y1 had no problem reading the DVD-ROM and topped out at a speed of 7.89x.

The following table sums it up:

The Optorite TED80Y1 performs up to it’s specs on Single Layer DVD-Video and Double Layer DVD-Video.

DVD ‘“ DVD+R(W):

For this test we used a Sony 8X DVD+R and a Philips 4X DVD+RW with 4.38Gb of data. Below are the results:

DVD+R

 
DVD+RW

The reading speed reaches 8.05x for DVD+R and 6.60x for DVD+RW.

The Optorite drive performs to spec reading DVD+R but fails to read DVD+RW at 8x.

DVD ‘“ DVD-R/RW:

For this test we used a Memorex 8X DVD-R disc and a Ritek 4X DVD-RW disc filled with 4.38Gb of data. Our test results are shown below:

DVD-R

 
DVD-RW

The reading speed reaches 8.04x for DVD-R and 6.60x for DVD-RW.

 The Optorite drive performs to spec reading DVD-R but fails to read DVD-RW at 8x.

Overall thoughts:

The Optorite drive performed well and is a good reader overall, however the specs indicate 8x read speed on RW media and our sample failed to achieve that.

But now it’s time to head on to a more interesting part: Writing CD-R and CD-RW discs…

---