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	MSI CR52A-A2	Plextor W4012TA	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	Data	Data
Drive Index	2426	1992	1974	1979	1978	2071	1745	2533	1282	n/a
Buffered Read:	1893kb/s	2300kb/s	1627kb/s	1758kb/s	1646kb/s	1484kb/s	1327kb/s	2273kb/s	19MB/s	n/a
Sequential Read:	3408kb/s	2802 kb/s	2919kb/s	2848kb/s	2907kb/s	2933kb/s	2380kb/s	3663kb/s	1699kb/s	n/a
Random Read:	952kb/s	776 kb/s	551kb/s	675kb/s	584kb/s	777kb/s	778kb/s	835kb/s	660kb/s	n/a
Access Time:	194ms	238ms	73ms	52ms	68ms	114ms	109ms	112ms	112ms	n/a

Sandra does nothing much of the MSI 52x CD-RW unfortunately. The access time is second only to the Plextor 40x CD-RW - however the drive's drive index and overall bandwidth are quite high (which is good).

Nero CD Speed 99 - Burn Test - Benchmarks	Source: Ahead Software

Nero's CD Speed burn tests are done twice, once with a CDR rated to 1x-24x burn speed, and a CD-RW rated to 4x-10x. 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 99; the software will detect if it is CD-R or CD-R/W media and run the appropriate tests.

CD-R Burn Tests	CD-RW Burn Tests