LiteOn SOSW-852SX Burner- Page 5

In order to test the ability of the LiteOn SOSW-852SX drive in creating an image of a protected disc, we used the well known image maker Alcohol 120% and three types of protected media, one being a PSX game, one with SafeDisc protection and one with SecuRom protection. Below are the transfer rates and duration of the drive in each of the cases.

With PSX media, we can see that the drive didn't perform well at all and came in a distant last, being the slowest in this category of the laptop drives. On the other hand, using Safedisc protected media, the LiteOn drive offered much better results in comparison with the other two laptop drives. With SecuRom, the performance was good.

The LiteOn SOSW-852SX supports the DAO-RAW writing mode. For checking the drive's EFM correction status, we used 3 different game titles with different SafeDisc 2 versions having the latest software patches installed. After making the images of the various titles onto the hard disk, we burned them (maximum speed) with Alcohol 120% v1.9.2.1705. Two different discs were created for each title; one with the "Bypass EFM error" enabled and one more with the function disabled.

• Fifa 2004 - Safe Disc v3.1x
• The Sims Superstar - Safe Disc v2.9x
• The Sims Unleashed - Safe Disc v2.8x
• Serious Sam Second Encounter - Safe Disc v2.51.021
• Max Payne - Safe Disc v2.51.020

The table below shows the results of the attempted backups and whether they worked (game installed / played normally), or not.

The drive is not made for game backups. However, it managed to make a working backup of SafeDisk protection version 2.8.