Writing Performance

Now we will check the burning quality with DVD media. Below, the available writing speeds, as reported by Nero Burning Rom.

By using Nero CDSpeed with DVD-R and DVD+R media, we are able to see the 18X writing strategies.

- DVD+R media @ 18X CAV

- DVD-R media @ 18X CAV

- Burning Tests

DVD-R media

The Samsung SH-S182D burner's writing times were good, managing 18X burning with our Verbatim 16X media in a time under 6 minutes. Impressive is the time needed with the Moser Baer disc, just 6:00min. RiDisc and ProdiscF01 8X certified media were burned as 4X media. A new firmware release should hopefully fix this.

DVD+R media

The compatibility list for 16X is good for DVD+R, with the exception of Datawrite Titanium 16X media which was recognized and burned at 8X. The time of 5:21 min with Taiyo Yuden media, burned at 18X is impressive.

- Comparison with other drives

The lower the better...

- DVD Overburning Tests

Using Nero CD-DVD Speed, we tested to see if the drive can overburn using DVD+R and DVD-R media. Unfortunately, the drive does not support overburning.

- DVD-RAM

The SH-S182D, supports DVD-RAM reading and writing at 5X and 12X.

As Maxell stated: "DVD-RAM is an advanced recording media format that offers a range of digital data applications. Its phase-change recording material allows discs to be re-recordable and erasable, and a superior defect management system ensures accurate recording and playback. DVD-RAM allows instant, random access to any location on the disc for fast and easy data reading and writing. Because DVD-RAM supports fast formatting and no finalizing, it is an extremely easy-to-use media. And with DVD-RAM, changes can be made directly on the disc without the need to transfer data to a hard drive first, speeding up the editing tasks..."

- Burning Tests

Using NeroCDSpeed, we produced the following graph:

The drive started writing at 4.83X and using the CLV strategy, reached 5.00X max writing speed, reporting an average burning speed of 4.80X. The task was completed in 11:39mins.

Using the latest Nero version, we burned our usual Single Layer DVD compilation.

The writing procedure ended after 39:04mins. Normally, the time needed would be much less were it not for the "Write and Verify" feature used when writing DVD-RAM media.