Waitec Action 16 Recorder - Page 5

Using Alcohol 120% and three protected discs with the appropriate settings according to the protection of each of the discs, we tested the capabilities of the Action 16 when reading and creating an image of protected media. Below are the transfer rate and duration of the drive on each of the cases.

In the first graph with PSX, we can see that the drive did not perform well in comparison to the other two drives, but with the Safedisk and SecuROM protection schemes, the Action 16 came first. Overall, a good performance.

The Waitec Action 16 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 (at 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.