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Burn tests and Conclusions
Nero's CD Speed burn tests are done twice, once with a CDR
rated to 1x-24x burn speed, and a CD-RW rated to 4x-10x. Each disk was
test with files of about 640MB in
size.
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CDR Burn Tests |
CD-RW Burn
Tests |
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| Burn Testing
- CDSpeed Write Tests Results |
| Optical Drive |
SW-224 |
| Disk Media |
CD-R |
CDRW |
| Media Write Speed: |
24X |
10X |
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| Avg Speed: |
22.63x |
10.01x |
| Start Speed: |
16.02x |
10.01x |
| End Speed: |
24.03x |
10.01x |
| Type: |
Z-CLV |
CLV |
With the CD-R media in the SW-224 the burn speeds were
tested and came quite close to the 24X write speed it should have ben capable
of. At an average speed of 22.6x, the SW-224 came very close to matching its
listed speed across the entire disk. Please note the top left picture where you
can see that the SW-224 sat at 24X for most of the disk, so it did meet its advertised
requirements.
On the CD-RW front, the Samsung SW-224 was listed as a
10x Re-Writeable drive, and here we can see the drive held steady at exactly 10.01x throughout the
entire disk, making it one fast CDR/CD-RW
drive.
With the proprietory Superlink under the hood to control
buffer underrun error and the bundling with Roxio's Easy CD Creator 5, the
SW-224 comes well equipped. With a retail price of about $80USD, Samsung
certainly have the economics on their side, making
the SW-224 an easily recommendable 24x-10x-40x CDR/CD-RW
Burner.
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Full SW-224 Drive Specs |
| Data
Transfer Rate |
Record: 24X (3,600 KB/sec) |
| Rewrite: 10X (1,500 KB/sec) |
| Read: 40X (6,000KB/sec) |
| Burst
Transfer Rate |
PIO Mode 4 (16.6 MB/sec) |
| DMA Mode 2 (16.6 MB/sec) |
| Recording Capacity |
CD-RW Disc 700/650MB (type
80/74) |
| CD-R disc 800/700/650/550MB (Type
90/80/74/63) |
| Interface |
EIDE/ATAPI |
| Buffer Memory |
2MB |
| Flash Memory |
512KB |
| Drive Mounting |
Horizontal/Vertical |
| Supported Disc |
CD-R,CD-RW,CD-DA,
CD-ROM/XA,CD-ROM |
| Video-CD, CD-I, Photo
CD,CD-Extra,CD-TEXT |
| Audio |
S/N Ratio >75dB |
| Channel Separation >65dB |
| Writing
Method |
DAO(Disc At Once), TAO(Track At
Once) |
| SAO(Session At Once), Packet
Writing |
| (Variable, Fixed Packet) |
| Physical
Specification |
Dimensions (WxHxD mm) : 148.2 x 42 x
184 |
| Weight (kg) :
0.77 |
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