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MSI X48 CD-RW/DVD-ROM Combo Drive
MSI X48 CD-RW/DVD-ROM Combo Drive - PCSTATS
Taking into consideration the popularity of small formfactor PC's, 'combo drives' are the perfect match for space lacking cases such as those tiny toaster-sized PCs.
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External Mfg. Website: MSI Jul 03 2004   Max Page  
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Benchmarks: CD Speed: CD-R, CD-RW and DVDs

Nero CD Speed: CD-R, CD-RW Discs Source: Ahead Software

Nero's CD Speed burn tests are done twice, once with a CDR rated to 1x-52x burn speed, and a CD-RW rated to 4x-32x. 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 the software will detect if it is CD-R or CD-R/W media and run the appropriate tests.

Nero CD Speed: CD-R/RW


CD-R

CD-RW

Nero CD Speed: CD-R, CD-RW Benchmark Results

Optical Drive MSI X48 AOpen 52x32x52x Samsung SW-252B MSI CR52A-A2 Plextor W4012TA LG 32x10x40
Media CD-R CD-RW CD-R CD-RW CD-R CD-RW CD-R CD-RW CD-R CD-RW CD-R CD-RW
Media Write Speed: 48x 24x 52x 32x 52x 24x 52x 24x 40x 12x 32x 12x
Avg Speed: 19.29x 4x 39.49x 30.86x 39.57x 18.72x 39.76x 24x 30.59x 12x 19.63x 10.01x
Start Speed: 12.01x 4x 23.97x 22.6x 23.62x 11.22x 23.82x 24x 20.01x 12x 16.01x 10.01x
End Speed: 24.02x 4x 51.21x 32.29x 52.14x 24.61x 52.25x 24x 40.05x 12x 20.02x 10.01x
Type Z-CLV CLV CAV P-CAV CAV CAV CAV CLV Z-CLV CLV Z-CLV CLV

We ran into an odd problem when testing the MSI X48 with CD media, the maximum we could get the burner to burn CD-R's was 24x despite the media being 48x compatible. CD-RW burning was also restricted to 4x no matter what we did!?

Nero CD Speed: DVD Discs Source: Ahead Software

CD Speed can also read DVD-ROM discs showing you maximum transfer speeds, access times and CPU utilization. The DVD data disc has about 3.78GB of data on it and is a retail DVD-ROM disc, not burned on a DVD-/+R disc.

Nero CD Speed: DVD-ROM

Nero CD Speed: DVD-ROM Benchmark Results

Optical Drive MSI X48
Disc Type DVD-ROM
Avg Speed 11.29
Random Seek Time 95ms
1/3 Seek Time 103ms
Full Seek Time 161ms
DAE Quality 10
CPU Use: 1x 1%
CPU Use: Max 1%
Disc recognition Time 4.87s
Disc Eject Time 5.44s
Disc Load Time 0.96s

Unfortunately we do not have any drives at this moment to compare the MSI X48 against to in the DVD-ROM tests. It looks like the MSI X48 does fairly well here, the access times are not very high nor is CPU utilization.

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Contents of Article: MSI X48
 Pg 1.  MSI X48 CD-RW/DVD-ROM Combo Drive
 Pg 2.  Supported formats, CDWinbench 99, Sandra
 Pg 3.  Benchmarks: CD Speed: Data and Audio
 Pg 4.  — Benchmarks: CD Speed: CD-R, CD-RW and DVDs
 Pg 5.  A good combo drive with class

 
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