On a positive
note, over at CDSpeed
page this morning, we learn that the great benchmarking tool CD-DVD Speed,
by Erik Deppe is up and ready for download! We use this software in our
optical drive reviews to check among other things: Transfer rate, Seek times,
CPU load, Burst rate, DAE (Digital Audio Extraction) quality &
Spinup/spindown time. It can also check the CD and DVD media quality.
 What's
new in this version:
- Added seperate Create Disc function with following improvements
- buffer level display, both graphically and numerically
- CPU usage display, both graphically and numerically
- Added option to set priority
- Added options button on main screen
- Greatly improved image burning engine
- Added menu shortcuts for burning image file
- Improved erase function
- Disc Quality Test
- Added 1x, 2x, 4x, 6x CLV and 8x P-CAV speed settings for BenQ
drives.
- Enabled support for Pioneer drives
- Small improvements and bug fixes
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Here is the link to
the download page.
Source: CDSpeed
