Pioneer BDR-101A Blu-ray Burner Preview

The specifications of the Pioneer BDR-101A state that the drive is able to write BD-R/RE discs at 2x. Let us find out how the drive really performs.

BD-R:

BD-R CD-Speed created data disc:

Our test BD-R media was manufactured by TDK

Our BD-R disc was written in 45 minutes and 3 seconds.

Now it was time to see if the Pioneer BDR-101A could read back our created disc.

As we can see, the Pioneer BDR-101A had no problems in reading back our test disc.

At present we have no other method of checking BD-R media. We used CD-Speed’s ’scan disc” option to test our disc for errors. As we can see the disc passed our test with flying colours.

BD-RE:

BD-RE CD-Speed created data disc:

Our test BD-RE media was manufactured by TDK

Our BD-RE disc was written in 45 minutes and 3 seconds.

Now it was time to see if the Pioneer BDR-101A could read back our created disc.

As we can see, the Pioneer BDR-101A had no problems in reading back our test disc.

At present we have no other method of checking BD-RE media. We used CD-Speed’s ’scan disc” option to test our disc for errors. As we can see the disc passed our test with ease.

BD-RE Nero Burning Rom created data disc:

Having selected our project type, we drag and dropped approximately 23 Gigabyte of data into our compilation and then burned the project.

Nero had no problems in writing our disc and completed the task in 46 minutes and 30 seconds.

Summary:
Writing BD-R/RE media at present is a slow process, but the sheer amount of data one can store on BD-R/RE media is staggering.

So let us head on to next page and read about DVD-Writing performance…