SiSoft Sandra 2011 - Optical Drive Tests

Source: Sandra

Sandra is designed to test the theoretical power of a complete system as well as the individual components. The results are also purely theoretical and may not represent real world performance. Test media for this benchmark was an 8.4GB DVD-R DL disk.

Sisoft Sandra 2011 Benchmark Results
Optical Drive	Plextor PX-LB950UE	Lite-On iHAS524	Lite-On iHAS424
Disc Type	DVD-R DL Data	DVD-R DL Data	Data
Drive Score	7.41MB/s	7.43MB/s	7.42MB/s
Access Time:	126.85ms	172.27ms	161.8ms

Plextor's PX-LB950UE does quite well in SiSoft Sandra's optical drive tests.

Nero DiskSpeed 4: CD Data Media

Source: Ahead Software

DiskSpeed 4 is a CD/DVD-ROM benchmark which can test the most important features of an optical drive. In this particular benchmark, we use a pressed CD-ROM with about 640MB of data as the test disk. Using a CD-R or CD-RW as the test disk may impact the results slightly, so pressed CD-ROM media is the standard testing tool.

CD Data

CD Data Media Benchmark Results
Optical Drive	Plextor PX-LB950UE	Lite-On iHAS524	Lite-On iHAS424
Disc Type	Data	Data	Data
Avg Speed	33.8x	33.47x	31.08x
Random Seek Time	119 ms	100ms	101ms
1/3 Seek Time	129ms	120ms	120ms
Full Seek Time	177ms	166ms	167ms
CPU Use: 1x	3%	0%	0%
CPU Use: 2x	2%	1%	1%
CPU Use: 4x	3%	1%	1%
CPU Use: 8x	7%	2%	2%
Disc recognition Time (sec)	10.05	10.23	0
Disc Eject Time (sec)	2.53	0.14	1.75
Disc Load Time (sec)	1.35	1.63	11.41

The Plextor PX-LB950UE does a good job in this test as well.

Nero DiskSpeed 4: CD Audio Media

Source: Ahead Software

Nero DiskSpeed 4 is a CD-ROM benchmark which can test the most important features of a CD-ROM drive. In this particular benchmark we use a pressed Audio CD with about 65 minutes of audio on it as the test disk. CDROMs in general have a harder time processing audio data and hence the results can be drastically slower than equivalent 'pure' data tests.

CD Audio

Audio Media Benchmark Results
Optical Drive	Plextor PX-LB950UE	Lite-OniHAS524	Lite-On iHAS424
Disc Type	Audio	Audio	Audio
Avg Speed	12.32x	32.69x	28.65x
Random Seek Time	136ms	103ms	103 ms
1/3 Seek Time	160ms	120ms	124 ms
Full Seek Time	233ms	167ms	176 ms
DAE Quality	10	0	2
CPU Use: 1x	1%	4%	4%
CPU Use: 2x	2%	1%	1%
CPU Use: 4x	4%	2%	2%
CPU Use: 8x	n/a%	4%	3%
Disc recognition Time (sec)	10.05	10.11	0.01
Disc Eject Time (sec)	2.54	0.14	1.75
Disc Load Time (sec)	1.35	1.51	11.66

Nothing out of the order here. CD-RW and DVD-RW tests are coming up after the jump.