CD burning
The SOHW-832S is able to burn CD-R and CD-RW at 40X and 24X maximum speed. In CD-R mode the compatible speed are 8X and 16X in CLV and 24X, 32X and 40X in CAV. With an 80 minutes CD, the burning starts at 18.49X and finishes at 41.51X. The average speed observed is 31.46X. With a CD-RW, the 832S uses the Ultra Speed 24X in Z-CLV and 16X in CLV burning with the Ultra Speed media. It is also possible to burn in 4X CLV and in 10X CLV. Burning a 650 MB CD-RW in Ultra Speed 24X require 4 minutes and 10 seconds.
The average burning time at 40X for 80 minutes CD-R is a decent 321 seconds. The 832S is able to burn CD-R up to 99 minutes. The burning quality of Philips, TDK, Verbatim and Memorex media is good as no C2 error has been detected by Plextools Professional 2.14. The C1 error ratio is relatively low.
Below the results obtained with a 700 MB Memorex CD-R certified 52X.
