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Follow UsThey keep getting faster and faster! Ever since USB 2.0 has become common, external CD-Writers have seen a constant rise in writing speeds. So much so that today they’ve achieved the same writing speeds as ordinary read speeds of CD-ROM drives. This time, we reviewed an external drive from Iomega. While the drive performed very well, the challenge we faced was in finding media of equal speeds.
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The drive is quite sturdy and supports all the regular features associated with CD-Rewriters, including buffer under-run protection. As for write speeds the Writer did quite well, giving good speeds, most of which were well below 3 mins and quite comparable to other drives in the market. The performance differential was not more than 5 secs in most. Overall, a good choice if you’re willing to pay the extra amount for an external drive.
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Model HDD |
Price | HD-CDR Burn (Data) |
HD-CDR Burn (Audio) |
CD-CDR Burn (Data) |
CD-CDR Burn (Audio) |
CDRW Format Time |
formatted Capacity (MB) |
CDRW-HDD Through-out (Mbps) |
| Iomega CD-RW USB 2.0 |
8,500 | 2:43 | 2:32 | 2:43 | 3:28 | 535/650 | 1.31 | |
| Samsung CD-RW |
3,800 | 2:34 | 2:31 | 3:00 | 3:42 | 11:40 | 572/700 | 1.1 |
| Sony CD-RW IDE |
5,150 | 2:37 | 2:31 | 0 | 3:33 | 4:32 | 534/650 | 1.35 |
| *All “burn” tests measured in min:sec. HD: hard drive, CD:CD-ROM drive, CD-R: CD-recordable media, CDRW: CD-ReWritable media. Max formatted capacity is given against the maximum capacity of the CD-RW media used. |
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Geetaj Channana