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Samsung SM-352 52x24x52x16 CD-RW/DVD Review
Samsung SM-352 52x24x52x16 CD-RW/DVD Review - PCSTATS
Samsung have been pumping out optical drives lately, and today we're going to be taking a look at their latest SM-352 52x24x52x16 CD-RW/DVD combo drive.
 82% Rating:   
Filed under: Optical Drives Published:  Author: 
External Mfg. Website: Samsung Apr 25 2003   C. Sun  
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Benchmarks: SiSoft Sandra 2002 and Burn Tests

SiSoft Sandra 2002 Pro CDROM Benchmarks Source: Sandra

Sandra is designed to test the theoretical power of a complete system and individual components. The numbers taken though are again, purely theoretical and may not represent real world performance.

Optical Drive SM-352 SW-252B MSI CR52A-A2 Plextor W4012TA

LG 32/10/40

MSI 8340

SW-240 SW-232 SW-224 SC152 DVD-500M SW-216
Disk Type Data Data Data Data Data Data Data Data Data Data Data Data
Drive Index 2098 2207 2426 1992 1974 1979 1978 2071 1745 2533 1282 n/a
Buffered Read: 1492kb/s 1582kb/s 1893kb/s 2300kb/s 1627kb/s 1758kb/s 1646kb/s 1484kb/s 1327kb/s 2273kb/s 19MB/s n/a
Sequential Read: 3004kb/s 3284kb/s 3408kb/s 2802 kb/s 2919kb/s 2848kb/s 2907kb/s 2933kb/s 2380kb/s 3663kb/s 1699kb/s n/a
Random Read: 740kb/s 792kb/s 952kb/s 776 kb/s 551kb/s 675kb/s 584kb/s 777kb/s 778kb/s 835kb/s 660kb/s n/a
Access Time: 261 ms 245ms 194ms 238ms 73ms 52ms 68ms 114ms 109ms 112ms 112ms n/a

Again the SM-352 scores a drive index of 2098, lower than that of the pure CDRW MSI CR52A-A2, but still good. The SM-352 has a pretty high access time, but that seems to be the trend with 52X drives.

Nero CD Speed 99 - Burn Test - Benchmarks Source: Ahead Software

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. This test is done by simply placing blank recording media into the burner and running CD Speed 99; the software will detect if it is CD-R or CD-R/W media and run the appropriate tests.

CD-R Burn Tests

CD-RW Burn Tests
Optical Drive Samsung SM-352 Samsung SW-252B MSI CR52A-A2 Plextor W4012TA

LG 32/10/40

MSI 8340

SW-240

SW-232

SW-224

Disk Media CD-R CD-RW CD-R CD-RW CD-R CDRW CD-R CDRW CD-R CDRW CD-R CDRW CD-R CDRW CD-R CDRW CD-R CDRW
Media Write Speed: 52x 24x 52x 24x 52x 24x 40X 12X 32X 12X 40X 12X 40X 10X 32X 10X 24X 10X
Avg Speed: 38.19x 22.97x 39.57x 18.72x 39.76x 24x 30.59x 12x 19.63x 10.01x 28.19x 12x 27.87x 12.03x 27.37x 9.97 22.63x 10.01x
Start Speed: 23.19 16.94x 23.62x 11.22x 23.82x 24x 20.01x 12x 16.01 10.01x 16.00x 12x 16.04x 12.03x 16.02x 9.97 16.02x 10.01x
End Speed: 21.04x 23.89x 52.14x 24.61x 52.25x 24x 40.05x 12x 20.02 10.01x 40.00x 12x 32.08x 12.03x 32.04x 9.97 24.03x 10.01x
Type: CAV P-CAV CAV CAV CAV CLV Z-CLV CLV Z-CLV CLV Z-CLV CLV Z-CLV CLV P-CAV CLV Z-CLV CLV

The Samsung SM-352 was able to hit the 52x CD-R writing speed but then performance tailed off. CD-RW performance was pretty good and was able to match the 24x CD-RW rating.

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Contents of Article: Samsung SM-352
 Pg 1.  Samsung SM-352 52x24x52x16 CD-RW/DVD Review
 Pg 2.  Benchmarks: CD Speed/Audio Tests
 Pg 3.  — Benchmarks: SiSoft Sandra 2002 and Burn Tests
 Pg 4.  Benchmarks: Nero DVD-Speed and Conclusion

 
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