CDR Tests

We tested the drive with latest version of Nero/CloneCD. Toshiba SD-R5002 supports the 16X maximum writing speed. For all the recording tests, we used slightly more than 80min data (80:01:47).

- Recording Tests

The drive finished the burning at 16x 427 seconds, faster than the DVR-A04, which of course supported 8X CLV maximum speed.

- Writing quality

We used Plasmon media and burned them at 16x with Pioneer DVR-A05. We used Nero as a CDR software. The results are illustrated in the following tables.

The average C1 error rate is 3.6. There is a small problem in the first minutes of the disc, where the C1 error rate reached the 70, as you can see in the graph below (spike).

- Other features

- Protected Titles backup

CloneCD reports that the drive supports the DAO-RAW feature.

For checking the drive's EFM correction abilities with CloneCD, we used 2 different game titles with various SafeDisc 2 versions. For getting the maximum of them, we used the latest software patches. The Toshiba drive was used as reader/writer at maximum reading/recording speed. We burned two discs for each game (Amplify Weak Sectors On/Off) and the results are posted in the below table:

Another protected game title with Safedisc v1.40.004 is "The Sims". After installing the game, the exact Safedisc version of the game was easilly recognized:

What's interesting with this title is that the new expansion pack released "The Sims Unleashed" upgrades the version of the Safedisc protection to v 2.80.0.10.

We made the usual tests with the latest CloneCD with both "Amplify Weak Sectors" option enabled / disabled. The produced backup seems not to work in any drive we tested. With Padus Discjuggler, we made a new image of the title to the hard disk. The produced backup with the Discjuggler software worked without any problems with all the drives we tested, and with Liteon LTR-32123S, Teac 40X CD-ROM and Creative 52X CD-ROM, among them.