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Plextor PX-LB950UE External 12x Blu-ray Writer Review
Plextor PX-LB950UE External 12x Blu-ray Writer Review  - PCSTATS
In recent weeks the talk of the town has been a sleek black external 12x Blu-ray WRITER from the folks at Plextor. The Plextor PX-LB950UE connects via USB 3.0 or eSATA cables and is capable of burning single layer Blu-ray Disk (BD) media at 12x, double layer BD media at 8x and DVD-R media at 16x speeds. In addition, it supports the playback of Blu-ray 3D movie titles.
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External Mfg. Website: Plextor Jan 23 2012   Max Page  
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ODD Benchmarks: Sandra 2011, Nero DiskSpeed Data / Audio

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.

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Contents of Article: Plextor PX-LB950UE
 Pg 1.  Plextor PX-LB950UE External 12x Blu-ray Writer Review
 Pg 2.  USB 3.0 or eSATA Data Cable?
 Pg 3.  — ODD Benchmarks: Sandra 2011, Nero DiskSpeed Data / Audio
 Pg 4.  ODD Benchmarks: Nero DiskSpeed CD-R/RW, DVD+RW
 Pg 5.  ODD Benchmarks: Nero DiskSpeed DVD+R DL, BD-R, Conclusions

 
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