Sony BWU-200S Blu-ray Rewritable Drive Review

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

CD reading performance   

Pressed CD-ROM discs

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

The Sony BWU-200S reached 41.62X, so how does that compare with other Blu-ray drives, let’s take a look here:

The Sony BWU-200S is a fast reader when compared with other Blu-ray drives.

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 Sony BWU-200S reached the speed of 41.66X 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 Sony BWU-200S is the fastest of our 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 Sony BWU-200S reaches a read speed of 33.48X; let’s compare this with our other tested Blu-ray drives:

The Sony BWU-200S performed on average while reading our CD-Rewritable disc.

Audio – Digital Audio Extraction

To test digital audio extraction performance with the Sony BWU-200S we used Nero CD-DVD Speed to measure the transfer rate; the audio disc we used is 74:00:00 in length.

The Sony BWU-200S reached the speed of 24.35X when reading our Audio-CD; let’s take a look on how that compares with our other tested drives below:

The Sony BWU-200S was the slowest 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 Sony BWU-200S will permit “On-The-Fly” copying at all tested speeds through 6X; the drive does not support reading data from the 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 Sony BWU-200S at reading “Pressed” DVD-Video discs both Single Layer and Double Layer.

DVD-Video Single Layer

DVD-Video Double Layer

The Sony BWU-200S read the SL DVD-Video disc at 6.12X and the DL DVD-Video disc at 6.22X.  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 Sony BWU-200S reads DVD+R/RW media as compared with other drives:

The Sony BWU-200S is among the fastest at reading our DVD+R test disc, however at reading the DVD+RW it performed on average with other tested 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 Sony BWU-200S compares with other drives for reading these media:

Here the Sony BWU-200S is the second 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

Below we have provided a table to show how the Sony BWU-200S compares with other Blu-ray drives.

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 Sony BWU-200S will read DVD-RAM at 5X; reading this disc in 11 minutes and 02 seconds.