Plextor PX-W4012A vs. Lite-on 40123S media compatibility info!

On our popular forum runner1000000 posted a very interesting thread about a test on the CDRLabs.com forum regarding the media quality a Plextor PX-W4012A produces vs. a Lite-On 40123S. The results are very interesting to say the least:

The information is presented in the following order for each line: brand and speed rating, disk manufacturer, time for plex to burn disk, whether disk was readable, time for Lite-on with Smart-Burn on to burn disk, whether disk was readable, time for Lite-on with Smart-Burn off to burn disk, whether disk was readable, any additional notes:

• TDK 32x Taiyo Yuden 3:34 Yes 3:25 Yes 3:25 Yes
  
• Plextor 32x Hitachi Maxell 3:23 Yes 3:24 No 3:25 Yes
  
• Yamaha 24x Mitsui 3:50 Yes 3:27 Yes 3:25 No
  
• Fuji Taiyo Yuden 5:13 Yes 5:19 Yes 3:25 Yes
  
• Verbatim 24x Mitsubishi 3:26 Yes 3: 42 Yes 3:25 No
  
• Verbatim 32x Mitsubishi 3:27 Yes 3:28 Yes 3:24 No
  
• GQ 32x Lead Data 3:31 Yes 3: 41 Yes 3:23 Yes (Bought at Frys for 2.90 for 10 pack)
  
• Smart Buy 16x Prodisc 3:31 No 3:30 No 3:26 No
  
• Imation 16x CMC 3:32 No 3:25 No 3:25 No
  
• CompUSA Black 16x CMC 3:38 Yes 3:25 No 3:32 No
  
• Office Depot 24x CMC 4:27 No 3:37 No NA No (disk stopped writing at 76%)
  
• Spin 32x CMC 3:36 Yes 3: 42 Yes 5:15 yes (bought at Office Depot for 14.99 for 50)
  
• Office Depot 32x CMC 5:27 No 3:24 No 3:32 No
  
• Imation 32x CMC 3:32 No 3:24 No 3:24 No
  
• Imation 24x CMC 3:32 Yes 3:25 No 3:24 Yes
  
• CompUSA 32x Ritek 3:51 Yes 3:28 Yes 3:38 Yes
  
• Sony 32x Sony 3:27 No 3:28 Yes 3:25 Yes
  
• Verbatim 16x Mitsubishi 5:18 Yes 3:53 Yes 3:52 Yes
  
• HP 24x Taiyo Yuden 3:32 Yes 3:24 Yes 3:27 Yes
  
• Unbranded 24x Taiyo Yuden 3:32 Yes 3:24 Yes 3:33 Yes
  
• TDK 24x Ritek 3:33 Yes 3:24 Yes 3:25 Yes
  
• PNY 24x Auvistar 5:19 Yes 3:27 Yes 3:25 No
  
• Teac 16x CMC 3:38 Yes 3:26 Yes 3:24 Yes
  
• Memorex 24x Ritek 3:33 Yes 3:26 Yes 3:25 No

A couple of brief observations. The plex was able to burn successfully 18 of the 24 CDs, the Lite-on with Safe-Burn burned 16 of 24, the Lite-on without Safe Burn 13/24. Burning with safe-burn is probably advisable. Any future burns that I do for public display will be burns with Safe Burn only. There were five disks that none of the three burners/states could do successfully (four were CMC- I would strongly advise you to be very careful when using CMC disks). I must assume that there was a problem with the disks, so the corresponding percentages (ratios) would go up for each accordingly to 18/19 (!), 16/19 and 13/19.

Well what can we say, a very interesting test indeed. You can find the full test procedure on the CDRLabs.com forum. We again thank runner1000000 for submitting this information on our own forum !

Source: CDRLabs Forums