Various DVD+R and our included D/L media where used to see how fast the BENQ DW 1600 could transfer both data and Video files from the media onto a Maxtor Serial ATA 120Gb hard drive.
| Media Tested |
Transfer Mode |
Start Speed |
Maximum Speed |
Average |
| Pressed DVD D/L |
CAV |
3.32x |
8.1x |
6.11x |
| DVD+R |
CAV |
3.38x |
8.19x |
6.14x |
| DVD+R D/L |
CAV |
3.34x |
6.59x |
5.17x |
| Pressed Audio CD |
CAV |
15.06 |
30.16 |
23.73 |
| CDR Audio |
CAV |
17.56 |
40.60 |
30.69 |
| Pressed data CD |
CAV |
21.14 |
47.84 |
36.23 |
| CDR Data |
CAV |
21.55 |
45.53 |
34.96 |
The above results show that the BENQ DW 1600 can reach very impressive transfer speeds for original pressed DVD Video and both DVD+/- R single layer recordable media as well very high transfer rates both both pressed and recordable CDR media with the B5G9 firmware. The DVD+R Double Layer recordable media also achieved almost identical transfer speeds on our test media making this drive a very good device for fast transfer of data from DVD
media.
To check how fast DVD ripping software could extract the files to hard disk at,we'ripped' the same DVD media to our hard drive with DVD Decrypter in ISO mode.
| Media Tested |
Start Speed |
Maximum Speed |
| Pressed DVD D/L |
3.29x |
7.80x |
| DVD+R |
3.38x |
8.19x |
| Verbatim DVD+R D/L |
3.27x |
7.98x |
| Traxdata DVD+R D/L |
3.39 |
7.81 |
The findings from DVD Decrypter are almost identical to the tests done with CD Speed and can only confirm the findings. Below are some screenshots from CD Speed showing the reading graphs for a selection of the media used for these transfer tests. Also included are some K-Probe test screenshots showing scans of the media tested on the BenQ DW 1600.
Pressed DVD D/L media test graph:
A perfect graph for the transfer of information from a pressed DVD,
with a slight 'dip' where the layer transition takes effect. Maximum transfer
speed achieved was 8.00x with an average of 6.11x.
DVD+R D/L media test graph:
A smooth transfer curve can noticed all the way until the end of the test where a maximum speed of 7.82x is achieved. with our Verbatim DVD+R D/L media. As with the pressed DVD transfer test, a slight 'dip' is noticed on the layer transition.
A few more peaks in the graph than we might of expected but the PI errors are well within excepted parameters as are the PIF errors.
DVD+R media test graph:
No problems reading our Traxdata 8x DVD+R with a smooth
reading curve being present all the way up to a top read speed of 8.19x.
The scan with K-Probe shows that this is a very good recording and no errors or playback problems should be noticed with this recording.
Here you can see a K-Probe scan of a philips 16x DVD+R where a very low and very acceptable amount of PI/PIF errors where noted. Again a very good recording! We will add more screenshots for 16x media when it arrives at CDR-Zone.COM.
CDR media test graph:
Absolutely no problems at all here either - a smooth reading
curve is present for our Ritek CDR Media.
An impressive K-probe scan for the Ritek CDR Media with very low
errors reported. According to this test, Ritek CDR will work very well with the
BenQ DW 1600.
