CD performance

[smathias]

I have a 17x/40x NEC player in a Dell. When copying files from CD to hard disk, I only get about 2x performance. Dell is waffling.

Anyone know of any utilities to directly test CD player performance to eliminate the other parts of the file transfer chain?

[GOOMER]

O.K this reply might be a year too late but try http://www.softseek.com/Utilities/Benchmarking_and_Tune_Up/Review_27594_index.html

[Serge]

CD Speed (http://user.glo.be/~erikd/cdspeed2.htm)