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Posted by Wendy Collins
Posted on 12/08/05 17:20
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 CD-R Writing performance
 CD-RW Writing performance
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Features And Techniques
 

Features and techniques:

Now it's time to take a closer look at the write technology used by the LITE-ON SOHR-5238S:

CD-Recordable:

CD-R
Disc
Writing

Supported
Write
Speed

Write
Strategy

Start
Write
Speed

End
Write
 Speed

Average
 Write 
Speed

Write
 Time 
Full 80min

Lite-On
SOHR-5238S

52x

CAV

23.37x

52.48x

39.77x

2m:31s

The LITE-ON SOHR-5238S uses CAV, (Constant Angular Velocity), to write at its maximum speed of 52X with CD-R media. This gives an average speed of 39.77x.

The Lite-On SOHR-5238S Uses P-CAV, (Partial Constant Angular Velocity) to write discs at speeds of 24x - 32x with CD-R media. This gives an average speed of 29.08x at 32x burn speed.

The LITE-ON SOHR-5238S uses CLV (Constant Linear Velocity) to write CD-R and CD-RW media at speeds of 16X and below. 

CD-Rewritable:

The LITE-ON SOHR-5238S uses ZCLV (Zone Constant Linear Velocity) to write CD-RW media at its maximum speed of 32X. This gives an average of 27.97X

CD-RW
Disc
Writing

Supported
Write
Speed

Write
Strategy

Start
Write
Speed

End
Write
 Speed

Average
 Write 
Speed

Write
 Time 
Full 80min

Lite-On
SOHR-5238S

32x

Z-CLV
3 zones

16.05x

32.11x

27.97x

3m:28s

Now that we have examined the drives features and writing technologies; it is time to move on to some tests. In the next page we will be testing the drives disc reading ability……
Installation
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Posted by Scour on Tuesday 09 August 2005 12:17
Good drive with CD-R and very fast. But I have see some DVD-writer that had lower C1 with same media.
And CD-RW-quality is pathetic :(

Posted by wildies on Tuesday 04 October 2005 15:51
using it from sometime now , doesnt have any problem till now.

but still cant find the media thats give the best results with this drive till now..
Posted by pablo (guest) on Monday 19 February 2007 04:07
After recording no more than 100 CDRs at speeds slower than 32x, the recorder no longer reads CDs just recorded, an the reading of a regular CD is never over 5x. I had bad luck? :c
Posted by pablo (guest) on Monday 19 February 2007 04:09
After recording no more than 100 CDRs at speeds slower than 32x, the recorder no longer reads CDs just recorded, an the reading of a regular CD is never over 5x. I had bad luck? :c
Posted by zliv (guest) on Saturday 11 August 2007 08:07
Very good and reliable. Reads problematic data cd's with no problem unlike my dvd recorders. The review says it reads Cactus data shield 100, but I have several Cactus data shield 200 discs, which can't be read by SOHR-5238S.
Posted by ahmed (guest) on Thursday 22 November 2007 08:02
ahmed karem
Posted by dola8 on Saturday 19 January 2008 03:42
AYUDA
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