Differences in read speed between DRU500A and DVR-A05

[Hertog_Martin]

Sony DRU-500A/Pioneer DVR-A05

CD-ROM - 32x/32x
CD-R - 32x/32x
CD-RW - 31x/32x
DVD-ROM (single) - 8x/12x
DVD-ROM (dual) - ?/8x
DVD-R - 2x/6x
DVD-RW -2x/6x
DVD+R - 2.5/?
DVD+RW - 2.5/?
Acces time DVD - 200ms/140ms
Acces time CD - 160ms/130ms

Pioneer wins this so you might want to take this into consideration when you dont want to buy an extra dvd-player just for reading

[Greg12]

u have neglected one thing though.


The Sony Drive can read and write BOTH formats

the pioneer cannot write DVD+RW/+R and it may not be able to read DVD+RW/+R

[Hertog_Martin]

yes i know but thats information already showed on this site.. im just posting extra information

[BJ_M]

for what purpose would one have to write dvd+r instead of -r ?

there is no advantage or gain ... so i dont get it ... whats the big deal that a burner can do both ...

[tim_theToolman_taylor]

for what purpose would one have to write dvd+r instead of -r ?

there is no advantage or gain ... so i dont get it ... whats the big deal that a burner can do both ...

it really depends on your standalone players. some people may find a certain media works in their standalone players better than other types. alteast the opton is there

[BJ_M]

for what purpose would one have to write dvd+r instead of -r ?

there is no advantage or gain ... so i dont get it ... whats the big deal that a burner can do both ...

it really depends on your standalone players. some people may find a certain media works in their standalone players better than other types. alteast the opton is there

i suppose -- but i ship out maybe 10 - 20 burned disks a week or more and never had a complant from one burned on a dvd-r ... more than 20 copies of the same thing -- send it out to get dup'd ... blah ....

[dc91gt]

I just ordered the Pioneer A05 (from new egg, retail kit for $310 - there were cheaper sellers on pricegrabber, but I trust new egg, ordered tons of stuff from them).

However, as far as player compability... it really only matters for the player you have.

And any player worth a damn will do DVD-R - especially if you are big on the SVCDs and VCDs, most any that play these formats will do -R. Again - pioneer wins here too, best set top players out there. My C503D 5 disc pioneer plays everything I've ever tossed at it.

Plus -R media is cheap.

-d

[ehlarson]

It seems to me that many of the numbers that are claimed for the Sony drive do not correspond to what Sony claims as specs on their unit; for example 8x DVD read is the manufacturers spec. The 10X RW read speed is also incorrect; that is the WRITE speed for this drive.

In any case, most people who do a significant amount of ripping buy a 16x drive for about $50 to do their ripping on, and save the wear and tear on their expensive burner, so I have to question how important read speeds on a burner are.

The Sony also offers a pretty big difference on write buffers - 8MB vs. 2 MB for the Pioneer. This should really help reduce coasters, especially burning 4x DVD-R sequential mode (this mode is does not work with Burn-Proofing) when the 4x media become widely available.

Then of course there is the dual media support..... I won't get into an argument here about the merits of the respective formats other than to say I like the idea of being able to handle both formats as the need arises. This has already helped my out in one case as I found a software package under Linux that only supports +R(W) that I am know using for data backups.

[Hertog_Martin]

how you know 10x read speed for cd-rw is incorrect? my source was http://www.sony.nl/view.x?prod=31576&cat=22167&tech&loc=en_NL

and 350+50 = 400 so reading speed is important for me..

[mysterio1]

I Love my AO5 and seeing this I love it even more, to the guy who said get a an extra DVD drive for the reading part most people dont have extra room to add another drive.

I paid over $100 less for my cendyne(pioneer) AO5 then what I would pay for the Sony, theirs no way in the world that the sony is worth that much money.

[Hertog_Martin]

Well for me the difference is only 30$ so i'm still doubting

[-jsl-]

From CDRLabs review

Sony DRU-500a read performance
CD-ROM: 32x max, 25x avg
CD-R: 32x max, 24x avg
CD-RW: 31x max, 24x avg
DVD-ROM: 8x max, 6x avg
DVD-video: 2x max, 2x avg
DVD+R: 2.5x max, 2.5x avg
DVD+RW: 2.5x max, 2.5x avg
DVD-R: 2x max, 2x avg
DVD-RW: 2x max, 2x avg

The Pioneer is faster at reading DVD±R/RW but is as slow as the Sony on ripping DVD-video (2x) according to CDR-info's review. The read performance of DVD±R on the Sony is supposed to be increased to 4x with the 1.0e firmware.

[pogue1000]

or the way i look at it.
How popular are the dvd-ram these days?

what if one of these formats become the next dvd-ram.

[medievil]

+R/RW is headed that way, it's primarily (JUst like DVD-Ram) used as Data storage. Plus (Like DVD Ram) the media is ridiculusly high!
I have no problem if people want to use +R/RW format. But MORe and more people are buying -r/rw. The drives are cheaper, the media is cheaper, and it's the accepted standard for Dvd recording. -R/RW is spreading at a much faster pace the +R/RW, even the +R/RW developers are incorperating -r compatiblity to sell drives.

[-jsl-]

Actually DVD+R/RW increases it's market share and with support from Aopen, Dell, Fujitsu-Siemens, HP-Compaq, Memorex, Microsoft, NEC, Philips, Ricoh, Sanyo, Sony, TDK, Thomson, Verbatim, Yamaha and more I don't think it will disappear.

Quote from Gordon Yeh, Ritek's CEO:

Yeh said the DVD-R disc is the mainstream DVD format at present, but DVD+R discs are showing signs of rising to dominance.

Quote from Andrew Wyllie head of NEC's UK data storage division

I think it will ultimately be (DVD+R/+RW) that will win, unless (DVD-R/-RW) comes up with significant benefits, so having 4x DVD+R is important to us," said Andrew Wyllie, head of NEC's UK data storage division. "But at the beginning of this year, it looked like DVD-R/-RW would win."