Toshiba Samsung Storage Division (TSST) has been among the first ODD maker that made its move into the market of 22X DVD burners with the SH-S223F. However, they took the initiative to also make it the first drive able to burn DVD+R DL media at 16X. This innovation along with the 22X burning feature sure make it something interesting to check out, and can make it stand out as the choice of many users.

The Samsung drive is able to burn DVD±R media at 22X, DVD+R DL at 16X, DVD-R DL at 12X, DVD+RW media at 8X, DVD-RW at 6X, DVD-RW DL at 2X and DVD-RAM at 12X. It is connected to the computer via a S-ATA interface, thus allowing Burst Transfer Rates of up to 1.5Gbps.

The drive is part of the company's Writemaster family of products, meaning that it carries all these technologies met in previous models, including the tilt actuator compensation and weight balance compensation technologies, buffer underrun for worry-free CD/DVD burnings as well as double OPC technology for reliable recordings.

- Drive Features & Specifications

-The Drive

The drive's external design is typical and the the available extra bezels could be easily installed and match the color of your PC case.

Let's have a look in the drive's internals.

The main board is compact compared to previous generations of DVD burners.

The drive's is based on the MediaTek MT1869L chip.

- Retail box

The retail box is complete and includes the following items:

• TSST SH-S223F DVD burner
• Quick setup guide
• S-ATA Data Cable
• Instruction manual
• Mounting screws
• 2 extra bezels (silver & white)
• Software disc with user manual (17 languages), Nero Express 7 Essentials, InCD Essentials, Nero Vision Essentials, Nero BackitUp Essentials, Nero ShowTime Essentials and Nero Recode Essentials

- Installation

The SATA drive was identified under Windows XP as "TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S223F ", firmware version SB02.

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