ASUS DRW-2014L1T DVD±/RW DRIVE with LightScribe Review

Data-CD Testing

We will be deriving quite a few result from the tests that we are about to conduct. The important numbers we are going to look at are spinning speeds, access times, CPU usages, and burst rates. We ran the same test on both drives and we will compare the result afterwards. Lets first see how CD's are behaving in our ASUS DRW-2014L1T DVD Writer while testing.





The people with really good eyes are able to see from the first two pictures what we translated into the graphs. The graphs will show you that while using a data CD, the ASUS Drive has slower start-up speeds, by sometimes as much as 18%. The fact that ASUS is an average of 14ms faster could somewhat makes up for this. The best thing we see here is the difference in CPU usage. We want the usage to be as low as possible and the ASUS drive does a great job keeping it lower than its competition by as much as 60%. Also good to mention: The burst rate on the ASUS drive is almost double that from the BENQ drive.