PassMark CD-Maker

Although new hardware components tend to have good-life and are ready for use right after installation, it might be necessary to perform tests to really check out performance. As such, PassMark CD-Maker is the type of tool you can use to create a disc image to use in your burin-in tests.

One of the first things you might need to know is that the application is not packed inside a setup package, so you can check out the set of features from the moment download is done. This means that it fits on a USB flash drive in case you decide to use it on other computers. Don’t worry about the health status of the target PC, because registry entries are not affected.

The set of features is stored in a rather minimalistic GUI. The process is incredibly easy to define, with a drop-down menu and browse dialogs being all elements you get to work with. An optical drive is not really required on the target computer, because the application merely creates the necessary image to be used with other programs to handle burn-in tests.

As such, one of your first steps is to decide what type of disc you wish to create an image for. All possible options are found in a drop-down menu, with choices for a couple CD types, one or two-layer, single or double-sided DVDs, as well as one or two-layer BD discs. This means that the required free space for the image ranges from 650 MB to 50 GB.

The last step of the operation is to select an empty folder for the necessary files to be stored in. A progress slider gives you an idea of the operation status. When done, created image files can be used with applications like BurnInTest Professional or PerformanceTest.

To sum it up, PassMaker CD-Maker is a practical application to create powerful disc images for CD/DVD/BD to use in your burn-in test scenarios. No optical drive is required to create the files, but only enough disk space to save your image files.