Nero CD speed test

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Nero CD Speed Test results
General Information
Operating System Windows XP Professional
Drive LITE-ON LTR-52246S
Firmware Version 6S0F
Serial Number
Disc Audio CD
Capacity 77:19.36
Transfer Rate
Start 21.66x
End 50.02x
Average 36.58x
Type P-CAV
DAE Quality
Quality 10
Accurate Stream Yes
Seek Times
Random 88 ms
1/3 99 ms
Full 151 ms
CPU Usage
1X 2 %
2X 7 %
4X 15 %
8X 20 %
Interface
Burst Rate 18772 KB/sec
Spin Up/Down Times
Spin Up Time 0.07 sec
Spin Down Time 3.98 sec
Load/Eject Times
Load Time 1.44 sec
Eject Time 1.42 sec
Recognition Time 6.09 sec

I used a Memorex/700mb@52x and burned some music (@52x as per Nero6). When I performed the Nero Cd Speed Test I noticed it started at 21.66x and when it got 30x started to spike downwards. At 32x it shot down to 18x then up again and so on. Is there something wrong. Sorry but could not copy and paste the graph. I'm new at this and am trying to learn as much as possible. 10x in advance.

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When I performed the Nero Cd Speed Test I noticed it started at 21.66x and when it got 30x started to spike downwards. At 32x it shot down to 18x then up again and so on. Is there something wrong. Sorry but could not copy and paste the graph. I'm new at this and am trying to learn as much as possible. 10x in advance.

It shouldn't slow down like that on a good disc.

Try doing a scan with the quality test in CD-Speed. Since you have a LiteOn, turn on the C1-reporting and you should get an indication of possible C1-errors. If there are too many, the drive may slow down during reading. That is an indication that the disc is at least questionable. Alternatives then are:
- lower burning speed
- different media

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