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NEC ND-3520A full review

Jan 25,2005 0

5. Protected Disc Tests

 

Review Pages

1. Introduction
2. Transfer Rate Reading Tests
3. CD Error Correction Tests
4. DVD Error Correction Tests
5. Protected Disc Tests
6. DAE Tests
7. Protected AudioCDs
8. CD Recording Tests
9. Writing Quality Tests - 3T Jitter Tests
10. Writing Quality Tests - C1 / C2 Error Measurements
11. Writing Quality Tests - Clover System Tests
12. DVD Recording Tests
13. Media Support list - +R/+RW/+R9 (DL) media
14. Media Support list - -R/-RW
15. Media Support list - CD-R/CD-RW
16. CDSpeed/PlexTools Scans - Page 1
17. CDSpeed/PlexTools Scans - Page 2
18. CDSpeed/PlexTools Scans - Page 3
19. CDSpeed/PlexTools Scans - Page 4
20. CDSpeed/PlexTools Scans - Page 5
21. CDSpeed/PlexTools Scans - Page 6
22. CDSpeed/PlexTools Scans - Page 7
23. CDSpeed/PlexTools Scans - Page 8
24. CDSpeed/PlexTools Scans - Page 9
25. DVD+R DL - Page 1
26. DVD+R DL - Page 2
27. BookType Setting
28. Conclusion

 

NEC ND-3520A Burner - Page 5

Protected Disc Tests

- Reading Tests

To create the image of the various protected titles to the hard disk, we used Alcohol 120% software and the appropriate settings, according to the protection type of the inserted discs. Below you can see the duration of each process as well as the transfer rate in each case.

Game Title
Protection Scheme
Duration
Reading speed
PSX "NBA Jam Extreme"
Lybcrypt
01:09 min
1310 sectors/sec
Serious Sam The Second Encounter v1.07
SafeDisc v.2.60.052
32:28 min
172 sectors/sec
VRally II
SecuROM v.2
3:05 min
1858 sectors/sec

The NEC ND-3520A is one of the slowest drives for SafeDisc v2 ripping. It could only backup the test disc at an average speed of 172.19 sectors/sec. With SecuROM v2 protected discs, the NEC burner was slightly slower than the Plextor and the Toshiba burners and the Toshiba SD-R5372 burner was the fastest with PSX discs.

- Writing Tests

The NEC ND-3520A supports the DAO-RAW writing mode. For checking the drive's EFM correction status, we used 5 different game titles with different SafeDisc 2 versions having the latest software patches installed. After making the images of the various titles onto the hard disk, we burned them (maximum speed) with Alcohol 120% v1.9.2.1705. Two different discs were created for each title; one with the "Bypass EFM error" enabled and one more with the function disabled.

  • Fifa 2004 - Safe Disc v3.1x
  • The Sims Superstar - Safe Disc v2.9x
  • The Sims Unleashed - Safe Disc v2.8x
  • Serious Sam Second Encounter - Safe Disc v2.51.021
  • Max Payne - Safe Disc v2.51.020

The table below shows the results of the attempted backups and whether they worked (game installed / played normally), or not.

Drive

Fifa 2004
SD v3.1

Sims Superstar SD v2.9
Sims Unleashed SD v2.8
Serious Sam-Second Encounter
SD v2.51.051
Max Payne
SD v2.51.020
EFM OFF
EFM ON
EFM OFF
EFM ON
EFM OFF
EFM ON
EFM OFF
EFM ON
EFM OFF
EFM ON
Toshiba
SD-M1502
No
No
No
Yes
No
Creative CD5233E
No
No
Yes
No

NEC ND-3520A

Yes
No
Yes
Yes

Like most NEC based drives, the ND-3520A cannot produce working backups with the newest v2.8x, v2.9x and v3.1x builds. Partially working backups were produced for SafeDisc v2.51.051 & v2.51.020.

 

Review Pages

1. Introduction
2. Transfer Rate Reading Tests
3. CD Error Correction Tests
4. DVD Error Correction Tests
5. Protected Disc Tests
6. DAE Tests
7. Protected AudioCDs
8. CD Recording Tests
9. Writing Quality Tests - 3T Jitter Tests
10. Writing Quality Tests - C1 / C2 Error Measurements
11. Writing Quality Tests - Clover System Tests
12. DVD Recording Tests
13. Media Support list - +R/+RW/+R9 (DL) media
14. Media Support list - -R/-RW
15. Media Support list - CD-R/CD-RW
16. CDSpeed/PlexTools Scans - Page 1
17. CDSpeed/PlexTools Scans - Page 2
18. CDSpeed/PlexTools Scans - Page 3
19. CDSpeed/PlexTools Scans - Page 4
20. CDSpeed/PlexTools Scans - Page 5
21. CDSpeed/PlexTools Scans - Page 6
22. CDSpeed/PlexTools Scans - Page 7
23. CDSpeed/PlexTools Scans - Page 8
24. CDSpeed/PlexTools Scans - Page 9
25. DVD+R DL - Page 1
26. DVD+R DL - Page 2
27. BookType Setting
28. Conclusion

 

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