To round off this review, we will run some advanced tests on the Asus DRW-1612BL.

DVD-RAM Performance:

Lets us take a look how the drive performs:

Maxell branded 12x media manufactured by Maxell.
Thanks to ExtremeMhz for providing this media.

Writing Maxell 12x without verification

Writing Maxell 12x with verification

Transfer Rate test

As we can see, the Asus DRW-1612BL writes 12x DVD-RAM without any problem, read back the disc at 12x speed in 5:36 minutes.

Maxell branded 5x media manufactured by Maxell.
Thanks to Maxell USA for providing this media.

Writing Maxell 5x without verification

Writing Maxell 5x with verification

Transfer Rate test

As we can see, the Asus DRW-1612BL writes 5x DVD-RAM without any problem, read back the disc at 5x speed in 10:59 minutes.

For those of you who are not familiar with DVD-RAM, you may probably think that something went wrong during the write process with the verification turned on, since the 3x and 5x media was written at 1.3x and 2x, respectively. But don’t worry, that is pretty normal for DVD-RAM discs. The reason for the lower writing speed is, the drive constantly reads back the data after writing it to verify that it’s written correctly. We can also call it a “bullet proof” writing/verify technique, with no data loss/errors.

On our next page we will perform the “Sheep test” with our  DRW-1612BL…