|  SiSoft Sandra 2002 Pro CDROM Benchmarks | Source: Sandra | 
  
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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 | SM-352 | SW-252B | 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 | Data | Data | 
  
    | Drive Index | 2098 | 2207 | 2426 | 1992 | 1974 | 1979 | 1978 | 2071 | 1745 | 2533 | 1282 | n/a | 
  
    | Buffered Read: | 1492kb/s | 1582kb/s | 1893kb/s | 2300kb/s | 1627kb/s | 1758kb/s | 1646kb/s | 1484kb/s | 1327kb/s | 2273kb/s | 19MB/s | n/a | 
  
    | Sequential Read: | 3004kb/s | 3284kb/s | 3408kb/s | 2802 kb/s | 2919kb/s | 2848kb/s | 2907kb/s | 2933kb/s | 2380kb/s | 3663kb/s | 1699kb/s | n/a | 
  
    | Random Read: | 740kb/s | 792kb/s | 952kb/s | 776 kb/s | 551kb/s | 675kb/s | 584kb/s | 777kb/s | 778kb/s | 835kb/s | 660kb/s | n/a | 
  
    | Access Time: | 261 ms | 245ms | 194ms | 238ms | 73ms | 52ms | 68ms | 114ms | 109ms | 112ms | 112ms | n/a | 
Again the SM-352 
scores a drive index of 2098, lower than that of the pure CDRW MSI CR52A-A2, but still good. The SM-352 
has a pretty high access time, but that seems to be the trend with 52X 
drives.
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 | 
  
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    | Optical Drive | Samsung SM-352 | Samsung SW-252B | MSI CR52A-A2 | Plextor W4012TA | LG 32/10/40 | MSI 8340 | SW-240 | SW-232 | SW-224 | 
  
    | Disk Media | CD-R | CD-RW | CD-R | CD-RW | CD-R | CDRW | CD-R | CDRW | CD-R | CDRW | CD-R | CDRW | CD-R | CDRW | CD-R | CDRW | CD-R | CDRW | 
  
    | Media Write Speed: | 52x | 24x | 52x | 24x | 52x | 24x | 40X | 12X | 32X | 12X | 40X | 12X | 40X | 10X | 32X | 10X | 24X | 10X | 
  
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    | Avg Speed: | 38.19x | 22.97x | 39.57x | 18.72x | 39.76x | 24x | 30.59x | 12x | 19.63x | 10.01x | 28.19x | 12x | 27.87x | 12.03x | 27.37x | 9.97 | 22.63x | 10.01x | 
  
    | Start Speed: | 23.19 | 16.94x | 23.62x | 11.22x | 23.82x | 24x | 20.01x | 12x | 16.01 | 10.01x | 16.00x | 12x | 16.04x | 12.03x | 16.02x | 9.97 | 16.02x | 10.01x | 
  
    | End Speed: | 21.04x | 23.89x | 52.14x | 24.61x | 52.25x | 24x | 40.05x | 12x | 20.02 | 10.01x | 40.00x | 12x | 32.08x | 12.03x | 32.04x | 9.97 | 24.03x | 10.01x | 
  
    | Type: | CAV | P-CAV | CAV | CAV | CAV | CLV | Z-CLV | CLV | Z-CLV | CLV | Z-CLV | CLV | Z-CLV | CLV | P-CAV | CLV | Z-CLV | CLV |