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LG GCE-8320B CD-RW Burner Review
LG GCE-8320B CD-RW Burner Review - PCSTATS
With a top listed CD-R speed of 32X, a CD-RW write speed of 10X, and a CD-ROM reading speed of 40X, this LG drive should be good for most normal duty.
 72% Rating:   
Filed under: Optical Drives Published:  Author: 
External Mfg. Website: LG Electronics Sep 28 2002   Max Page  
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Nero CD-Speed, Sandra benchmarks

Nero CD Speed 99 - Data - Benchmarks Source: Ahead Software

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

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.

Nero CD Speed 99 - Audio - Benchmarks Source: Ahead Software

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

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

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.

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Contents of Article: LG Electronics GCE-8320B
 Pg 1.  LG GCE-8320B CD-RW Burner Review
 Pg 2.  Testing the LG 32x10x40x CDRW
 Pg 3.  — Nero CD-Speed, Sandra benchmarks
 Pg 4.  Burn tests and Conclusions

 
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