Plextor PX-W4012S (SCSI)

We’re almost done with our Plextor PX-W4012S review and for our last tests we’re, as always, going to check if the drive can read and write exotic CD-Recordable’s. These include 99 minute discs and 8cm discs. Let’s start with the first one:

Overburning:

We used DataTrack 99min/900MB CD-R’s for our tests that were certified up to 40X writing. We used Nero CD Speed to do an overburn test. We set the ‘Test capacity’ to 99 minutes, started the test and Nero CD Speed reported that the PlexWriter drive could overburn to 99 minutes! If this is correct then it would mean that this is the first Plextor drive to fully support overburning. To put Nero CD Speed’s results to the test we created a new 99 minute audio compilation using Nero Burning Rom. In the screenshot below you can see that the write process was completed successfully:

So this is great news since Plextor has finally added 99 minute support (other Plextor writers will only write up to 94 minutes). Let’s check if the created disc can be read back again:

In the graph you can see that reading the disc was no problem. The PlexWriter read the disc at maximum speed achieving a top read speed of 41.73x. Let’s go to our final test:

8cm CD-RW Tests:

To conclude our Plextor PX-W4012A review we’re going to read and write an 8cm CD-RW disc. The 8cm discs we’re using were manufactured by DataTrack. The discs can hold a maximum of 24min/213MB and were certified up to 4X re-writing. To test if the PlexWriter could write the disc we simply set up a 210MB data compilation using Nero Burning Rom and started the write process:

As expected writing the 8cm CD-RW disc was no problem at all and reading it back also went just fine.