SAMSUNG SH-W08A DVD±R/RW recorder- Page 11

DVD Recording Tests

- Writing Performance

The Samsung supports DVD-R/RW and DVD+R/RW writing. The maximum supported speed for DVD+R and DVD-R is 8x Z-CLV and 4x CLV for DVD+/-RW media.

8x DVD+R

An 8x DVD+R disc from TraxData was used to check the 8x writing strategy of the drive. The software used was Nero CDSpeed, with its "create disc" function.

The drive started writing at 4.02x, and ended at 8.05x with an average speed of 6.44x.

CMC 8x DVD-R

The simulation with the 8x DVD-R was almost the same as with 8x DVD+R media. In this test we used CMC media.

Mitsubishi Chemicals 4x DVD+RW

Mitsubishi Kagaku 4x DVD-RW

- Burning Tests

The best recording times are illustrated in the following table. The values were taken after burning 4315MB of data on various DVD±R, DVD±RW media, using the maximum allowed writing speed for each disc. For comparison, we also include the writing times for the TDK 880N and Toshiba SD-R5272.

There is not much between the Samsung and Toshiba drives, their values being very close.

The table below presents the writing speeds, media name and media code for the various discs used.