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AOpen COM5232 Combo Drive Review
AOpen COM5232 Combo Drive Review  - PCSTATS
The AOpen COM5252 is capable of burning CD-R media at 52x speeds and CD-RW media at 32x. Reading CD-ROM material hums along at 52x.
 79% Rating:   
Filed under: Optical Drives Published:  Author: 
External Mfg. Website: AOpen Jul 20 2004   C. Sun  
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Benchmarks: CD Speed: CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-ROM

Nero CD Speed: CD-R, CD-RW 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

AOpen 5232 Combo

LG GSA-4082B

MSI X48 AOpen 52x32x52x Samsung SW-252B MSI CR52A-A2 Plextor W4012TA
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 CD-R CD-RW
Media Write Speed: 52x 32x 24x 16x 48x 24x 52x 32x 52x 24x 52x 24x 40x 12x
Avg Speed: 34.01x 30.65x 19.29x 15.28x 19.29x 4x 39.49x 30.86x 39.57x 18.72x 39.76x 24x 30.59x 12x
Start Speed: 22.51x 21.77x 12.01x 12.01x 12.01x 4x 23.97x 22.6x 23.62x 11.22x 23.82x 24x 20.01x 12x
End Speed: 44.74x 32.25x 24.02x 16.02x 24.02x 4x 51.21x 32.29x 52.14x 24.61x 52.25x 24x 40.05x 12x
Type P-CAV P-CAV Z-CLV Z-CLV Z-CLV CLV CAV P-CAV CAV CAV CAV CLV Z-CLV CLV

I was a bit surprised to see that the AOpen 5232 Combo drive could not reach its top speed of 52x despite having compatible media in the drive.... We're actually able to just break the 32x speed barrier on the CD-RW side of things.

Nero CD Speed: DVD-ROM 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


DVD-ROM

Nero CD Speed: DVD-ROM Benchmark Results

Optical Drive

AOpen 5232 Combo

Gigabyte GO-W0808A

LG GSA-4082B

MSI X48
Disc Type DVD-ROM DVD-ROM DVD-ROM DVD-ROM
Avg Speed 11.63x 8.94x 8.83x 11.29x
Random Seek Time 95ms 94ms 104ms 95ms
1/3 Seek Time 105ms 100ms 170ms 103ms
Full Seek Time 158ms 162ms 183ms 161ms
DAE Quality 10 10 10 10
CPU Use: 1x 17% 6% 2% 1%
CPU Use: Max 50% 25% 4% 1%
Disc Recognition Time 7.86s 10.28s 6.6s 4.87s
Disc Eject Time 1.38s 0.96s 1.85s 5.44s
Disc Load Time 1.03s 1.2s 1.32s 0.96s

Again the AOpen 5232 Combo is extremely fast, highest average speed we've ever seen but for some reason access times are quite high, with CPU usage jumping to 50%!

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Contents of Article: AOpen COM5232
 Pg 1.  AOpen COM5232 Combo Drive Review
 Pg 2.  Software and Media Compatibility
 Pg 3.  Benchmarks: CD Speed: Data and Audio
 Pg 4.  — Benchmarks: CD Speed: CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-ROM
 Pg 5.  A good all around drive

 
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