Reading performance:

We will use Nero CD/DVD-Speed to read various CD and DVD media.

Pressed CD-ROM discs:

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

The LG BH08LS20 reaches the reading speed of 48.41X.

For comparison we have made the following table:

As you can see from our chart the LG BH08LS20 is one of the fastest drives reading pressed CD-ROM discs with respectable seek times.

CD-Recordable Discs:  

For this test we used a Maxell CD-R disc manufactured by Ritek; the disc was burned full with data using Nero CD-DVD Speed.

The LG BH08LS20 reached 48.68X when reading the copied CD-R disc.

For comparison we have made the following table:

The LG BH08LS20 is right there as the top performer when reading CD-Recordable discs, with some nice seek times.

CD-Rewritable discs: 

We made another Data CD with Nero Express “Copy Entire CD”, this time we are using a Verbatim DataLifePlus Ultra Speed+ (32X) CD-RW disc.

The LG BH08LS20 read our CD-RW disc back at 40.52X speed.

For comparison we have made the following table:

The LG BH08LS20 was one of the fastest at reading our CD-Rewritable disc. 

Audio – Digital Audio Extraction

To test the digital audio extraction performance of the LG BH08LS20 we used Nero CD-DVD Speed to measure the transfer rate. The audio disc we used is 74 minutes in length.

The LG BH08LS20 reached 39.21X when reading our audio disc

For comparison we have made the following table:

The LG BH08LS20 performs nicely when reading the Audio-CD disc.

 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 LG BH08LS20 will permit “On-The-Fly” copying speeds through 4X; the drive does not support reading data from the Lead-Out.

DVD reading performance:

DVD-Video “Pressed Disc”

We utilized Nero CD-DVD Speed to measure the reading performance.  We will perform the reading performance testing on various types of DVD discs.  To start off with we will test the LG BH08LS20 at reading “Pressed” DVD-Video discs both Single Layer and Double Layer.

DVD-Video Single Layer

DVD-Video Double Layer

The LG BH08LS20 reads both SL and DL pressed DVD-Video discs at 8X.

For comparison we have made the following table:

The LG BH08LS20 is not a fast reader with pressed DVD-Video Single Layer and DVD-Video Double Layer reading tests.

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 LG BH08LS20 reads DVD+R/RW media as compared with other drives:

The drive posts respectable speeds when reading our test discs, reading the DVD+R disc at over 16.62X speed and the DVD+RW disc at 10.34X speed.

Now let’s see how it will perform on DVD-R/RW discs.

DVD-R/RW:  

For testing the DVD-R and DVD-RW reading performance we used Taiyo Yuden 16X DVD-R and Verbatim 6X DVD-RW discs. 

 Below you will find our test results.

DVD-R

DVD-RW

We have also provided this table to show how the LG BH08LS20 compares with other drives for reading these media:

The drive performs on the top end; reading the DVD-R disc at over 16X speed and the DVD-RW disc at over 10X speed.

DVD±R DL:  

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

DVD+R DL

DVD-R DL

Below we have provided a table to show how the LG BH08LS20 compares with other Blu-ray drives.

The drive performs average while reading DVD+R DL and DVD-R DL at just over 8X speed.

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 LG BH08LS20 will read DVD-RAM at 5X; reading this disc in 14 minutes and 50 seconds.

Summary

The LG BH08LS20 is a fast reader while reading CD media and Single Layer DVD but performs on average when compared with the rest of the pack when reading Dual Layer DVD media.

Now it’s time to head on to the next section: Writing Quality with CD-R and CD-RW discs…