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Advanced testing

To round off this review, we will run some advanced tests on the ASUS DRW-2014L1T.

External Enclosure Performance

Here we installed the ASUS DRW-2014L1T into a Galaxy External Enclosure, model number 5202ASUAS, supporting USB2.0 and eSTATA, here are those results:

20X write using Nero CD-Speed

Burst Rate Test

Disc Quality Scan at 4X

TRT

The ASUS DRW-2014L1T performs nicely when used with this enclosure.  Still we did find the same drop in speed just before reaching 20X as we did while the drive was installed internally.

Burning LightScribe Labels

The ASUS DRW-2014L1T as a LightScribe drive enables images to be burned onto LightScribe Discs, both CD and DVD.  Make a label whenever and wherever you want with your PC and burner.  It is Simple, Compatible and Flexible. 

You may use the included Nero 7 essentials software to create and burn your LightScribe labels to your LightScribe media.  Make sure you have the latest LS system software which is required to enable LightScribe functionality.  You may download this free software from www.lightscribe.com in the download section.

We burned our LS label using LS system software version 1.10.19.1 which now includes the LightScribe Control Panel application to easily configure and monitor the installed LightScribe functions.  The “Extended Label Contrast Utility” is now included in the Control Panel of this latest software.

Below is a Verbatim LS DVD+R 16X disc with our Review Team label burned to it:

The “Sheep Test”

For this test, we will use the Sheep tests made by Alexander Noé. Why is it called sheep test? That’s because the logo of the first 1 to 1 copy program called CloneCD is a sheep. When looking at supported writers, you will notice that the feature list has sheep to indicate if a feature is supported or not. In this case we are interested in the writer’s ability to backup/write weak sectors. Also called: “Correct EFM encoding of regular bit-patterns.”

• No sheep: Can’t backup any Safedisc 2 versions without the help of software tricks
• 1 Sheep: Can backup Safedisc 2 up to version 2.4x without software tricks
• 2 Sheep: Can backup Safedisc 2, including version 2.5x
• 3 Sheep: Can write all possible weak sectors, few if any writers could do this.

One of our forum moderators Womble, has written a guide concerning the “Sheep Test” that can be found here.

In the screenshot below taken from CloneCD, we see the ASUS DRW-2014L1T supports everything.

We created our “Sheep Test” disc according to “Womble’s” instructions; using the copy method, our results follow.

As you can see, when we tried to copy the files on the written disc in the ASUS DRW-2014L1T to our Hard Drive; SD2OLD, SD251 and SD290 being able to copy.  However, SHEEP3 failed, resulting in the determination that this drive is rated “2 sheep”.

Over burning:

700MB (80 minute) over-burn test

From the above screenshot, the ASUS DRW-2014L1T failed to over burn this disc to 83:28.04; we then set CD-Speed to over burn to 82:00.00.  This burn is shown below:

As you can see the ASUS DRW20-14L1T had no problem burning our 80 minute disc to 81 minutes and 16 seconds. 

We then decided to see if the ASUS DRW-2014L1T is able to read the same over burned disc.

As we can see from the above screenshot, the ASUS DRW-2014L1T had no problems when reading our test disc.

DVD+R over-burn test

The ASUS DRW-2014L1T does not support over-burning this type of media.

DVD-R over-burn test

Here also, the ASUS DRW-2014L1T does not support over-burning to the DVD-R media.

MINI DVD discs

For our final test we would like to see how the ASUS DRW-2014L1T works with one of our mini-DVD test discs.

Here we are testing the ability of the DRW-2014L1T to write and read a mini DVD-RW disc with the capacity of 30 minutes/1.37GB.

This Memorex media is made by Verbatim.  Thanks to Memorex USA for providing this media.

The ASUS DRW-2014L1T had no problems in writing our test Mini-Disc.  Let’s take a look to see if the drive can also read the disc.

The ASUS DRW-2014L1T read our test mini-DVD without any problems.

This concludes our ASUS DRW-2014L1T review. To read the conclusion, click on the link below.

DVD-RAM writing performance

Conclusion