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Test Configuration And Methodology

07:00 - Friday 5 September 2003 by Roland Marianna

Hardware
Processor	AMD Athlon XP 2100+
Memory	512 MB PC2100
Hard Drive	IBM 120 GXP 60 GB
Graphics Card	Hercules 3D Prophet 9700 Pro
Drivers & Software
DirectX	9.0
OS	Windows XP Professionnal
Benchmarks	Nero Burning ROM 5.5.9.22 Nero CD Speed 1.01.3 Nero DVD Speed 0.53B Nero DAE TEST0.4B

The tests were performed in four stages:

Reading a CD (650 Mb) Min and Max transfer rate Access Time Audio extraction + DAE test Reading a DVD (4.26 Gb) Min and Max transfer rate Access time Writing a CD Time to burn a CD-R 650 Mb Time to burn a CD-RW 650 Mb Writing a DVD Writing a DVD-R/+R 4.5 Gb Time taken to burn a DVD-RW/+RW 4.5 Gb

We compared the DVR-A06 and its predecessor the DVR-A05 to the Philips DVDRW-228K and the Sony DRU-500A. We really would have liked to include the most recent Sony dual writer of course, which is also compatible with the latest speeds, but Sony could not get it to us fast enough. So we'll make a date with the dual writers for a future comparative test.