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I remember reading a while ago something that I personally summed up as "the drive for quieter DVDRW drives has resulted in drives that don't perform anywhere near expectations", ie. if you want to rip data quickly from an optical disc, quiet drives don't help you do that. This all seems reasonably logical to me, a rule of thumb being 'the quieter the drive is, the slower the disc is being spun'.
In the days of optical drives being in common and regular use, a quiet drive was certainly helpful - who wants a drive that sounds like a vacuum cleaner starting up because they wanted to watch a DVD on their computer or retrieve a few not particularly large files.
It seems however that since the idea of a quiet drive caught on, the fast drives have died out (or at least aren't advertised as such / are a lot less common).
However, I've found a drive that is pretty loud but performs a heck of a lot better, and I'm running some tests at the moment (and so far so good). The model is a Pioneer DVR-S20LBK.
I'm comparing it to the two optical drives in my system, a LiteON iHAS24 drive and a TSSTcorp SH-223C. I'm using Nero's CD-DVD speed utility, running a ScanDisc operation at full speed, and I'm using the same disc for each test, a brand-new Windows 7 SP1 64-bit OEM install disc.
The Pioneer started scanning at just over 6x speed and finished off at around 14x speed. The LiteON started at about 4.5x speed and finished at 5.4x speed (however it ran virtually silent). The TSSTcorp started at 6.4x speed (fairly loud) and finished at 14x.
If anyone wants to share their findings feel free. I'm using Nero CD-DVD Speed 4.7.7.16 for the record on Win7 SP1 64.
In the days of optical drives being in common and regular use, a quiet drive was certainly helpful - who wants a drive that sounds like a vacuum cleaner starting up because they wanted to watch a DVD on their computer or retrieve a few not particularly large files.
It seems however that since the idea of a quiet drive caught on, the fast drives have died out (or at least aren't advertised as such / are a lot less common).
However, I've found a drive that is pretty loud but performs a heck of a lot better, and I'm running some tests at the moment (and so far so good). The model is a Pioneer DVR-S20LBK.
I'm comparing it to the two optical drives in my system, a LiteON iHAS24 drive and a TSSTcorp SH-223C. I'm using Nero's CD-DVD speed utility, running a ScanDisc operation at full speed, and I'm using the same disc for each test, a brand-new Windows 7 SP1 64-bit OEM install disc.
The Pioneer started scanning at just over 6x speed and finished off at around 14x speed. The LiteON started at about 4.5x speed and finished at 5.4x speed (however it ran virtually silent). The TSSTcorp started at 6.4x speed (fairly loud) and finished at 14x.
If anyone wants to share their findings feel free. I'm using Nero CD-DVD Speed 4.7.7.16 for the record on Win7 SP1 64.
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