CD Speed is a CD-ROM benchmark which can test the
most important features of a CD-ROM drive. In this particular test we use a
pressed CD-ROM with about 640MB of data as the test disk. Using a CDR or CDRW as
the test disk may (or may not) impact the results slightly, so the pressed disk
is the de facto standard.
LG 32-10-40 - CDSpeed Data Tests |
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|
Optical Drive |
LG 32/10/40 |
MSI 8340 |
SW-240 |
SW-232 |
SW-224 |
SC-152 |
DVD-500M |
SW-216 |
Disk Type |
Data |
Data |
Data |
Data |
Data |
Data |
Data |
Data |
Avg Speed |
30.46x |
30.69x |
31.06x |
31.65x |
30.82x |
38.90x |
32.30x |
24.94x |
Random Seek Time |
101ms |
94ms |
93ms |
90ms |
87ms |
86ms |
86ms |
94ms |
1/3 Seek Time |
112ms |
98ms |
100ms |
101ms |
91ms |
105ms |
100ms |
112ms |
Full Seek Time |
184ms |
165ms |
160ms |
169ms |
137ms |
181ms |
164ms |
192ms |
CPU use: 1X |
1% |
0% |
1% |
1% |
1% |
1% |
0% |
1% |
CPU use: 2X |
2% |
1% |
2% |
2% |
3% |
2% |
1% |
2% |
CPU use: 4X |
20% |
5% |
5% |
4% |
7% |
4% |
2% |
5% |
CPU use: 8X |
9% |
8% |
10% |
9% |
11% |
8% |
3% |
9% |
Disk Recognition Time: |
7.08s |
0.01s |
4.63s |
5.2s |
9.15s |
6.30s |
0.01s |
- |
Disk Eject Time |
1.55s |
1.32s |
1.33s |
1.39s |
1.12s |
1.05s |
1.19s |
1.19s |
Disk Load Time: |
1.27s |
7.60s |
0.98s |
1.080s |
1.10s |
1.14s |
7.26s |
1.14s |
There really isn't too much variation under the standard CDROM data tests
here. The average speed for the LG 32x10x40x was 30.46x, but towards the end
of the disk the drive did reach speeds of about 37X. CPU usage at 4X
jumps up to 20% - and that is something we tested twice -
which is a little bit out of the loop. Everything else looks pretty much
where you'd expect it to be.
CD Speed is a CD-ROM
benchmark which can test the most important features of a CD-ROM drive. In this
particular test we use a pressed Audio CD with about 65 minutes of audio on it
as the test disk. CDROM's in general have a harder time processing audio data,
and hence the results can be drastically slower than that of data tests
alone.
LG 32-10-40
- CDSpeed Audio
Tests |
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|
Optical Drive |
LG 32/10/40 |
MSI 8340 |
SW-240 |
SW-232 |
SW-224 |
SC152 |
DVD-500M |
SW-216 |
Disk Type |
Audio |
Audio |
Audio |
Audio |
Audio |
Audio |
Audio |
Audio |
Avg Speed |
27.51x |
29.58x |
27.44x |
24.89x |
22.98x |
18.97x |
29.96x |
22.32x |
Random Seek Time |
105ms |
134ms |
92ms |
93ms |
86ms |
88ms |
88ms |
97ms |
1/3 Seek Time |
119ms |
109ms |
106ms |
107ms |
102ms |
98ms |
95ms |
98ms |
Full Seek Time |
172ms |
520ms |
161ms |
170ms |
157ms |
167ms |
161ms |
163ms |
DAE Quality |
10 |
10 |
10 |
10 |
10 |
10 |
10 |
10 |
CPU use: 1X |
1% |
1% |
1% |
1% |
2% |
1% |
0% |
2% |
CPU use: 2X |
3% |
1% |
3% |
3% |
6% |
3% |
1% |
4% |
CPU use: 4X |
5% |
3% |
7% |
7% |
14% |
5% |
2% |
7% |
CPU use: 8X |
10% |
6% |
14% |
14% |
23% |
11% |
4% |
13% |
Disk Recog. Time: |
6.99s |
0.02s |
3.99s |
9.16s |
8.38s |
4.35s |
0.01s |
- |
Disk Eject Time: |
1.55s |
1.31s |
1.33s |
1.37s |
1.10s |
1.06s |
1.19s |
1.18s |
Disk Load Time: |
1.28s |
7.60s |
0.98s |
1.08s |
1.10s |
1.14s |
7.33s |
1.14s |
Audio disk benchmarks show peg the LG 32x10x40x in a middle of the road
position. It is not the fastest drive we've tested, but it manages to out-perform
a few of the Samsung CDRW's we have tested in the
past.
SiSoft Sandra 2002 Pro CDROM
Benchmarks |
Source: Sandra |
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Sandra is designed
to test the theoretical power of a complete system and individual components.
The numbers taken though are again, purely theoretical and may not represent
real world performance.
Optical Drive |
LG 32/10/40 |
MSI 8340 |
SW-240 |
SW-232 |
SW-224 |
SC152 |
DVD-500M |
SW-216 |
Disk Type |
Data |
Data |
Data |
Data |
Data |
Data |
Data |
Data |
Drive Index |
1974 |
1979 |
1978 |
2071 |
1745 |
2533 |
1282 |
n/a |
Buffered Read: |
1627kb/s |
1758kb/s |
1646kb/s |
1484kb/s |
1327kb/s |
2273kb/s |
19MB/s |
n/a |
Sequential Read: |
2919kb/s |
2848kb/s |
2907kb/s |
2933kb/s |
2380kb/s |
3663kb/s |
1699kb/s |
n/a |
Randon Read: |
551kb/s |
675kb/s |
584kb/s |
777kb/s |
778kb/s |
835kb/s |
660kb/s |
n/a |
Access Time: |
73ms |
52ms |
68ms |
114ms |
109ms |
112ms |
112ms |
n/a |
Sandra shoots out some good results for the OEM LG drive. Access times are
pretty good here at 73ms.