Recording and Verification tests
Recording:
A series of CDR-Zone.COM recording tests where used to test the 16x DVD+R Media at the maximum record speeds possible for this media on both DATA and DVD Video compilations.
Nero Burning ROM from Ahead Software was used to burn a Video DVD and Data DVD from my Hard drive. The entire process should take around 6 minutes to record 4.35 GB of Video files and at its maximum rated speed of 16x.
Nero Burning ROM recording the Traxdata 16 DVD+R media with the BEN Q 1620 at speed of 16x taking a total of 5 minutes 48 seconds to record 4.35 GB to
this media. You can see quite clearly that the finishing speed was 15.5x
although it did actually reach 16x:
CD Speed 'Create CD' Test:
Nero's CD Speed 'Create CD' test was used to burn the maximum amount of data possible to the Traxdata media at its maximum rated recording speed of 16x on the BEN Q 1620.
The screenshot below shows proof that the 16x recording was achieved via the CAV write strategy. Total time for this test was 5 minutes and 50 seconds which is consistent with recording time Nero Burning ROM took to record the same media, averaging an impressive 11.47x for the recording :
Verification and error checking :
VSO Inspector, and Nero CD Speed where used to check the recorded DVD for any bad sectors that might be present. As the screenshots below shows, no bad sectors where found during any of the scans used during this review.
VSO Inspector Showing no errors reported during its scan of the Traxdata
16x+R media. We have a perfectly readable DVD according to this scan:
CD Speed Showing no errors reported during its scan of the Traxdata 16x+R media. Again a clear bili of health from Ahead :
To check for any surface or PI/PIF errors on the recorded DVD-RW, CD Speeds Disc quality test was used to scan the recorded Media with the BENQ 1620 :
The tests show that very low PI/PIF errors were reported and this is a quality recording of this media on the BEN Q 1620 at 16x. The Jitter was also extremely low according to the Benq 1620 scan.
CD Speed gave this a quality score of 83 on the Liteon 1633 which is very high and we have found in tests that Media with CD Speed quality scores of under 90 and lower have been perfectly good recordings.
NOTE:
"The less PI/PIF errors that are found on a media then in theory the longer the
archival life of the media and so this media should have a good archival life
without data loss, that said these are to be used as a basic guideline to the quality of the recorded media only and shows how well the chosen devices where able to read the media."
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