Samsung SW-216 16-10-32 CDRW Review
It used to be
that only a few people had burners in their systems - and usually SCSI at
that. Now a days, CD-R and CD-R/RW drives like the SW-216 are easy to come by and
operate reliably on IDE. Larger buffers (8MB in this case) help to prevent errors
from occurring during the burn process, but without software like BurnProof,
or something similar, caution can't quite be thrown to the wind
completely.
The SW-216 uses its own version of this
technology called Just Link while capably writing CD-R's at a moderately fast 16X write speed, 10x
for CD-RW's and while reading at 32X.
The front bevel
of the drive is a nice change from what we are normally accustomed to seeing,
and comes with a headphone jack, volume wheel and eject button. The eject button
looks like it should light up from behind, but rather a small LED to the left is
used to indicate the status of the drive.
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Ships with the following:
- User's Guide
- Nero Burning ROM
- Samsung CD/DVD-ROM Device Driver For E-IDE Floppy Disk
- CD Audio cable (4-pin connector)
- Philips mounting screws
- IDE CABLE
Manufacturer: www.samsung.ca
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Features:
The Samsung SW-216 has the standard jumpers in the back of the drive for
master/slave/cable select, along with the IDE host connector and the 4-pin power
terminal. Alongside those connections in the back of the unit are the regular
4-pin CD audio connector and the 2-pin digital audio output terminal for
soundcards and/or MPEG cards which support digital audio features.
The packaging and layout are fairly straight forward. The only gripe I have with this packaging is the omission of the
2-pin digital audio cable, which would have been a nice addition. Most manufacturers usually
seem to forget to include the 2-pin digital audio cable in their respective
retail boxed units as well. Note that the four-pin cable is not
shown in the above picture.
The user's guide that is included in the box, is easy to
read and has the basic information listed in terms of installation, product features/specifications, firmware upgrades
and also a diagnostic troubleshooting section. The general
specs on the drive are as follows:
- 16X Write, 10X ReWrite, 32X Read
- Interface : EIDE/ATAPI
- Drive Type : Internal Type
- Buffer Memory : 8MB
- Loading Type : Motorized Tray Type
- Average Access Time : 100 ms
- Drive Mounting : Horizontal/Vertical
- Writing Method : DAO, TAO, SAO, Multisession, Packet Writing
- Supported Disc :CD-R/RW, CD-DA, CD-ROM, CD-ROM/XA, Video-CD, CD-I, Photo
CD, CD-EXTRA, CD-TEXT.
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