There were no surprising or new results from Yamaha in this test - it took about two seconds to open or close the tray.
Data Transfer Performance
It's become apparent in last few months that there is hardly any difference in data transfer performance among the different drives. All of the newest drives are able to read at 32x or 40x, which is usually fast enough.
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Patrick Schmid was the editor-in-chief for Tom's Hardware from 2005 to 2006. He wrote numerous articles on a wide range of hardware topics, including storage, CPUs, and system builds.
