To round off this review, we will run some advanced tests on the LG GBW-H10N.

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 LG GBW-H10N supports everything.

The LG GBW-H10N supports RAW-DAO recording mode, which basically means, it can write uncorrected data and sub-channel data.

As we can see from the table the LG GBW-H10N is a “Two Sheep Burner”, it successfully write the Safedisc V2.51 but however it failed to write the Safedisc V2.90 test.

CD-R Overburning test:

To test the CD-R overburning capabilities of LG GBW-H10N, we used the overburning test in Nero CD-DVD Speed. According to Nero CD-DVD Speed the drive can overburn disc larger then 99/100 minutes. For this test we used unbranded Infodisc 99min/900mb CD-R which is rated 10x speed.

The LG GBW-H10N reported a maximum overburn capacity of 96:47.47 minutes in simulation mode, so we attempted to created a test disc using Nero CD-DVD Speed with a slightly less capacity. See below:

There are no problem writing this media around 95 minutes. We now ran a quality scan to check the created discs readability.

The scan shows a good result with C1 average of 1.84. We conclude that the LG GBW-H10N supports overburning CD-R.

DVD+R Overburning test:

To test the DVD+R overburning capabilities of the LG GBW-H10N, we used the overburning test in Nero CD-DVD Speed with Taiyo Yuden DVD+R 8x certified media.

From Nero CD-DVD Speed Overburning Test screenshots above, the drive does not support overburning. The test stopped at 4482MB which is the standard size for DVD+R media. We will now attempt to verify this using Nero CD-DVD Speed Create Data Disc:

As you can see that the drive failed to overburn the media. We conclude that the LG GBW-H10N does not support overburning DVD+R.

Mini DVD-R write quality

The drive burned this Mini DVD-R media without any problem.

Mini DVD+RW write quality

The drive burned the Mini DVD+RW media with good results.

This concludes our LG GBW-H10N Super Multi Blue review, lets head on to the last page to read our conclusion…

Blu-ray Disc Performances

Conclusion