TEAC CD-W540E


 

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Review: TEAC CD-W540E
Reviewer: G@M3FR3@K
Provided by: TEAC Deutschland GmbH
Firmware: version 1.0B
Production date: March 2002

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TEAC is a Japanese company dating back from the early fifties. It was formed after a joint venture between the
Tokyo Television Acoustic Company and the Tokyo Electro Acoustic Company and since 1964 both companies have been
operating under the name TEAC.

As early as the mid-sixties, TEAC introduced the first professional tape storage drive for computers. In relatively
short succession this was followed by all of the storage media used in electronic data processing today. With the
first 5.25" disc drive in the world (1978) and one of the first 3.5" floppy drives (1983) standards were being set.
Today, the TEAC group employs more than 1.200 people on all continents.

So much for the history lesson straight from the TEAC
website
. A lot has happened since TEAC was formed and now it presents its latest CD-RW drive, the CD-W540E. The
drive can write discs at 40x, re-write them at 12x and read them at 48x and it can/should thus compete with the fastest
drives available today.

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In this review we'll test the drive at the claimed speeds and compare it to 'standard' 32x recorders. Is 40x really
a lot faster for instance? How about the drive's abilities to cope with the various copy-protections used nowadays? Read
on and find out!

Test Machine:

For the tests we'll be using the following configuration:

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Hardware:

  • Processor: AMD Athlon 700Mhz
  • Motherboard: ASUS K7V
  • RAM: 256MB (PC133)
  • Harddisk: Maxtor 30GB 7200rpm (UDMA 66)

System set-up:

    System set-up

Software:

  • OS: Windows ME
  • VIA 4in1 Drivers: v3.37

As you can see the TEAC CD-W540E was set-up as MASTER on the Secondary IDE Channel and identifies itself as "TEAC
CD-W540E". DMA (Direct Memory Access) and Autorun were enabled for every device.

Used Software:

For the tests we'll be using the following software:

Now let's take a look at the package of the TEAC CD-W540E...


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