Review: Mitsumi CR485CTE
Reviewer: Hemispasm
Firmware: 1.0
Provided by: Mitsumi
Production Date: June 2002
Mitsumi nowadays is one of the worldwide leading manufacturers of electronic components and PC peripherals. Mitsumi produces a wide range of peripheral products (Floppy Disk Drives, keyboards, mice etc) but I am sure most of you are familiar with its CD-RW drives.
Back in January we reviewed their 32x drive (CR-480ATE) in which it scored 9 out of 10. The 485CTE drive can read disks at 48x, write at 40x (Z-CLV) and re-write disks at 20x (only new cd-rw media). In this review we'll take a look at how well the drive performs and how it compares to other 40x recorders.
Test Machine:
For this review we'll be using the following configuration:
Hardware:
- Processor: AMD Athlon XP 2200Mhz
- Motherboard: ASUS A7V333
- RAM: 256MB (PC 2700)
System Set-Up:
As you can see the Mitsumi CR-485CTE is set-up as MASTER on the Secondary IDE Channel and is identified as "MITSUMI CR-48XCTE". DMA (Direct Memory Access) and Autorun are enabled for every device.
Used Software:
- Ahead InCD
v3.51.61 - Ahead Nero Burning Rom
v5.5.9.17 - Ahead Nero CD Speed v1.01.3
- Ahead Nero
InfoTool v1.03.2 - Elaborate Bytes CloneCD
v4.0.1.10 - Exact Audio Copy v0.9 beta 4
- G&M CDR Identifier v1.63
- Clony XXL v2.0.10 (English
version)
On the next page we'll take a look at the package of the Mitsumi CR485CTE...