Nero CD Speed: CD-R, CD-RW Discs	Source: Ahead Software

Nero's CD Speed burn tests are done twice, once with a CDR rated to 1x-52x burn speed, and a CD-RW rated to 4x-32x. Each disk was test with files of about 640MB in size. This test is done by simply placing blank recording media into the burner and running CD Speed the software will detect if it is CD-R or CD-R/W media and run the appropriate tests.

Nero CD Speed: CD-R/RW
CD-R CD-RW

Nero CD Speed: CD-R, CD-RW Benchmark Results

Optical Drive

MSI X48

AOpen 52x32x52x

Samsung SW-252B

MSI CR52A-A2

Plextor W4012TA

LG 32x10x40

Media

CD-R

CD-RW

CD-R

CD-RW

CD-R

CD-RW

CD-R

CD-RW

CD-R

CD-RW

CD-R

CD-RW

Media Write Speed:

48x

24x

52x

32x

52x

24x

52x

24x

40x

12x

32x

12x

Avg Speed:

19.29x

4x

39.49x

30.86x

39.57x

18.72x

39.76x

24x

30.59x

12x

19.63x

10.01x

Start Speed:

12.01x

4x

23.97x

22.6x

23.62x

11.22x

23.82x

24x

20.01x

12x

16.01x

10.01x

End Speed:

24.02x

4x

51.21x

32.29x

52.14x

24.61x

52.25x

24x

40.05x

12x

20.02x

10.01x

Type

Z-CLV

CLV

CAV

P-CAV

CAV

CAV

CAV

CLV

Z-CLV

CLV

Z-CLV

CLV

We ran into an odd problem when testing the MSI X48 with CD media, the maximum we could get the burner to burn CD-R's was 24x despite the media being 48x compatible. CD-RW burning was also restricted to 4x no matter what we did!?

Nero CD Speed: DVD Discs	Source: Ahead Software

CD Speed can also read DVD-ROM discs showing you maximum transfer speeds, access times and CPU utilization. The DVD data disc has about 3.78GB of data on it and is a retail DVD-ROM disc, not burned on a DVD-/+R disc.

Nero CD Speed: DVD-ROM

Nero CD Speed: DVD-ROM Benchmark Results
Optical Drive	MSI X48
Disc Type	DVD-ROM
Avg Speed	11.29
Random Seek Time	95ms
1/3 Seek Time	103ms
Full Seek Time	161ms
DAE Quality	10
CPU Use: 1x	1%
CPU Use: Max	1%
Disc recognition Time	4.87s
Disc Eject Time	5.44s
Disc Load Time	0.96s

Unfortunately we do not have any drives at this moment to compare the MSI X48 against to in the DVD-ROM tests. It looks like the MSI X48 does fairly well here, the access times are not very high nor is CPU utilization.