ASUS BC-1205PT Blu-ray ROM/DVD Writer Review

Reading performance  

We will use Nero CD/DVD-Speed to read various BD, CD and DVD Discs; including audio discs and DVD-media.

Blu-ray reading performance

BD-ROM

For this test we will read a SL and DL BD-ROM:

BD-ROM SL

The ASUS BC-1205PT read our SL BD-ROM at its rated speed of 5X.

BD-ROM DL

Reading of BD-ROM DL is done at 2X.

BD-R   

The ASUS BC-1205PT read our BD-R media at it’s 5X rated reading speed.

BD-RE

The ASUS BC-1205PT reads BD-RE discs at 5X, however there was a slight deep at the end of the disc.

BD-R (DL)

The BC-1205PT reads BD-R DL discs at 2X speed.

Not let’s take a look at CD reading performance……..

CD reading performance   

Pressed CD-ROM discs

We used an original pressed CD-ROM disc containing 72.39.55 minutes of data.

The ASUS BC-1205PT reached 33.47X, so how does that compare with other Blu-ray drives, let’s take a look here:

The ASUS BC-1205PT reads on average with the other drives in speed and seek times.

CD-Recordable Discs

For this test we used a Data CD-R that we created with Nero CD-DVD Speed in “create data disc” mode.  The disc was a Maxell 48X certified disc manufactured by Ritek.  (Thanks to Maxell for sending us this media.)

The ASUS BC-1205PT reached the speed of 33.57X when reading a full CD-R disc.  Let’s take a look on how that compares with other Blu-ray drives.

With our CD-Recordable Disc the ASUS BC-1205PT performs on average with our other tested Blu-ray drives.

CD-Rewritable discs

For the CD-Rewritable tests we created a Data CD using Nero CD-DVD Speeds’ “create data disc”.  We used a Verbatim 32X CD-RW.  (We thank Verbatim USA for sending us this media)

The ASUS BC-1205PT reaches a read speed of 25.29X; let’s compare this with our other tested Blu-ray drives:

The ASUS BC-1205PT performed on average while reading our CD-Rewritable disc.

Audio – Digital Audio Extraction

To test digital audio extraction performance with the ASUS BC-1205PT we used Nero CD-DVD Speed to measure the transfer rate; the audio disc we used is 74:00:00 in length.

The ASUS BC-1205PT reached the speed of 32.71X when reading our Audio-CD; let’s take a look on how that compares with our other tested drives below:

The ASUS BC-1205PT performs nicely with Digital Audio Extraction times.

Advanced audio – DAE quality test  

For the Advanced Audio DAE test we used the “Advanced DAE Quality Test” feature of Nero CD-DVD Speed.  The CD-R media used is a 40X certified Memorex Music CD-R manufactured by Ritek. (Thanks to Memorex USA for sending us this media.)

The ASUS BC-1205PT will permit “On-The-Fly” copying at all tested speeds through 12X, however is too slow for on-the-fly at 16X; the drive does not support reading data form the Lead-in or Lead-Out.

DVD reading performance

DVD-ROM “Pressed Disc”

We utilized Nero CD-DVD Speed to measure the reading performance.  We will to the reading performance testing on various types of DVD discs.  To start off with we will test the ASUS BC-1205PT at reading “Pressed” DVD-Video discs both Single Layer and Double Layer.

DVD-Video Single Layer

DVD-Video Double Layer

The ASUS BC-1205PT read the SL DVD-Video disc at 5.23X and the DL DVD-Video disc at X.  Let’s take a look below to see how the drive compared with other we have tested:

DVD+R/RW  

For testing the read speed of DVD+R and DVD+RW discs we used Verbatim 16X DVD+R and 8X DVD+RW.  Both Discs were written with 4.38GB of data using Nero CD-DVD Speed.  (Thanks to Verbatim USA for sending us this media.) See the results below:

DVD+R

DVD+RW

We have prepared this table to show you how the ASUS BC-1205PT reads DVD+R/RW media as compared with other drives:

The ASUS BC-1205PT is fastest at reading our DVD+R test disc, however at reading the DVD+RW it performed on average with other test drives.

DVD-R/RW  

For testing the DVD-R and DVD-RW reading performance we used Verbatim discs we used Verbatim 16X DVD-R and 6X DVD-RW.  (Thanks to Verbatim USA for sending us this media.) Below you will find our test results.

DVD-R

DVD-RW

We have also provided this table to show how the ASUS BC-1205PT compares with other drives for reading these media:

Here again the ASUS BC-1205PT is the fastest of our tested drives at reading DVD-R and average at reading our DVD-RW media.

DVD±R DL

For this test we used a Verbatim DVD±R DL discs filled with data.

DVD+R DL

DVD-R DL

The ASUS BC-1205PT reads both media at 8X. 

DVD-RAM

For this part of our test we are using a Maxell 5x DVD-RAM filled with 4.27GB of data. Our test results are found below:

The ASUS BC-1205PT will read DVD-RAM at 5X; reading this disc in 11 minutes and 08 seconds.