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Read Rates
Proceeding to the
drive’s transfer rates, we find that the CD-S500 provides good overall
performance, but there are some oddities with original CDs.
“Normal” performance first.
(Transfer rates are green, rotation rates are yellow.)
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Green
CD-R
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Blue
CD-R
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CD-RW
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Green and blue CD-Rs
hit the 50x mark easily. The
blue’s top speed is 52.5x, while green’s is 51.8x, which are actually
extraordinarily good. However,
one must take into accopunt the noise factor.
More on this later.
The
drive reads rewritten CD-RWs at approximately half the speed as
once-written CD-RWs, thereby reaching a 25.5x rate.
Previous tests have shown that CD-RW read rates are usually lower
than those of CDs and CD-Rs by 25-50%, which puts this drive at the lower
end of the spectrum.
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