Optorite DD0401 Dual DVD Recorder - Page 6

- Reading Tests

The purpose of this test is to create an image from various protected titles to the hard disk. CloneCD v4.3.1.9 software was used with the appropriate settings, according to the protection type of the inserted discs. Below are summarized the capabilities of the Optorite drive, as presented by CloneCD software.

The game titles we used for each protection scheme are illustrated in the table below:

PSX Pressed Media

SafeDisc v.2

SecuROM

In general terms, the performance of the Optorite drive when compared with the other two drives can be characterised as average. It performed reasonably well in both the PSX Pressed media and SecuROM ripping tests, but proved quite slow with SafeDisc.

Writing Tests

For checking the drive's EFM correction status, two different game titles were used with different SafeDisc 2 versions and the latest software patches installed. After creating the images of the various titles to the hard disk, we burned them (maximum speed) with CloneCD v4.3.1.9. Two different discs were created for each title; one with the "Amplify Weak Sectors" feature enabled and one with the function disabled.

In the table below can be seen as to whether the produced backups were working (game installed / played normally), or not.

The backups were tested in various CD-RW and DVD-ROM drives, but none of them worked. Optorite DD0401 is not a powerful solution to create backups of protected discs.