Samsung SW224 24-10-40 CDRW Burner
The
numbers 24-10-40 are used to indicate that the Samsung SW224 CD-R/RW (or CDRW
for short) burner is capable of writing CD-R media at 24X, rewriting CD-RW media
at 10X, and reading standard CD-ROM's at 40X.
Having
three types of drives is really not that practical anymore as it
takes away too many IDE channels. This is why CDRW burners
have become the de facto standard on most computers sold today. The slight trade
off in speed you get from a three-in-one is still well worth it in the
longrun.
The SW224 uses 2MB of buffer
and has 512KB of flash memory so the firmware could be updated in the future if
necessary. The drive uses a more long lasting geared motorized tray mechanism
(as opposed to rubber belt) and can be mounted horizontally or vertically
depending on your preferences (ie. as in a 4U server). Both the full sized 120mm
CD's and smaller half-size 80mm CD's can be read. The front bezel is clean with
just an eject button, indication LED, headphone jack and volume wheel for audio
disk playback.
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Ships with the following:
- User's Guide
- Easy CD Creator 5
- CD Audio cable (4-pin connector)
- Philips mounting screws
- 40-pin IDE CABLE
- 2X Recording Media
Manufacturer: www.samsung.ca
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On the rear of the drive, Samsung have been very
good with connectors and included, along with the standard IDE/Molex
Power/Analog Audio Connect a two-pin digital audio output terminal. However,
only the four-pin analog audio cable is included with the drive. This cable
needs to be plugged into the motherboard or sound card if you want to listen to
CD's through the computer.
The Samsung SW224 comes with that four-pin audio cable, a 40-pin IDE cable,
sound mounting screws, manual, some blank media (one CDR and CDRW disk), and
a proprietory version of Roxio's Easy CD Creator 5 which supports PureBurn.The burner itself uses something
called "Super Link" which is basically the same idea as "Just Link" or
"BurnProof" which protect against buffer underrun errors from making a coaster out of
your recording media.
| test system specs: |
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computer hardware: |
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| processor: |
amd athlon xp 2000+ |
| clock
speed: |
1.67ghz |
| motherboard: |
asus a7v266-e |
| chipset: |
via kt266a |
| videocard: |
ati radeon 8500 |
| network
card: |
dlink de-528ct |
| memory: |
256MB Corsair PC2400 CAS2
DDR |
| Hard Drive: |
IBM 40GB Deskstar 7200RPM |
| Heatsink: |
Taisol CGK760092 |
| PowerSupply: |
Enermax 431Watt |
| Software
Setup |
Windows 2000 Pro
VIA 4in1 4.37V
DetonatorXP
21.83
DirectX 8.1 |
| Benchmarks |
CD WinBench 99 V1.1
Nero CD Speed
SiSoft Sandra 001 |
CDWinBench
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