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Test Setup |
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Motherboard: |
Abit AA8 Duramax |
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Processor: |
Intel Pentium 4 - 3.4 GHz |
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Memory: |
2 GB Corsair TWIN2X1024-4300C3PRO |
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Cooling: |
Swiftech H20 120 Water Cooling Kit |
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Storage: |
2 - Hitachi 500 GB SATA 150 RAID 0 |
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PSU: |
AeroCool Zero DBA |
To test the speed of the drive what we did was setup a copy of
Alcohol 120, and then placed a DVD which had 3.87 GB of data on it
into the I/O Magic DVD Burner. We will then start Alcohol 120 and
create a mirror image of the DVD onto our hard drive. Once
that is complete we will burn the image onto a blank DVD to record
the amount of time that it takes.
Thanks to the 7,200 rpm hard drive with 16 MB cache the total time
to create the image was relatively short. Creating the image
in our simulation shows that the I/O Magic DVD Burner will take
approximately 26 minutes and 2 seconds to burn our 3.87 GB image.
It should be noted that the actual time to burn the image was only
22 minutes and 52 seconds, we're not sure why there was such a
difference in the simulation and the actual burn speed.
The I/O Magic DVD Burner does exactly what it says it will do
and it does one thing that a normal DVD player doesn't do, and that
is become portable by simply unplugging the USB cable and the power
cord. This small feature alone allows you to insure that every
computer in your house can have access to a DVD player. One of the
things that I have used a portable DVD player in my home for is to
limit the types of games my children can install on their computer.
Without a built-in DVD player in their system even when a friend brings a
game over there is no way for them to install it into their
computer.
It's also handy if you happen to have a house full of company and
the adults want to watch one DVD and the kids want to watch another,
you can move the I/O Magic External DVD Player to a computer and
hook it up and they can watch their movie in a separate room.
Yes this unit is slightly out of date with the newer drives burning
at speeds up to 8x, but the reason we reviewed this product is we
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