Mitsumi CR-4809TE vs. Lite-On LTR-24102B
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| Posted on | 22/02/02 18:45 |
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Backing up protected games:How good are the drives at backing up protected games? For this test we used CloneCD which is one of the best programs to backup protected applications. For those interested in reading how the different protections work and how they could be Identified, you can read our articles
This is the settings we used to read ALL the games, we've found this setting to work in most cases, yes we know that not all protections have subchannel data so it's really not needed every time. And for the intelligent bad sector scanner: With many protections this will speed up the reading, but we'll leave it off since it has caused problems for us more than one time!
And this is my write settings, since the Mitsumi do not support 'Correct EFM encoding of regular bit-patterns" I had to enable 'Amplify weak sectors" to get working backups.
| Protection/game | Mitsumi read | Lite-on read | Mitsumi backup work | Lite-On backup work |
| Safedisc / Dungeon Keeper 2 | 57:22 | 7:54 | Yes | Yes |
| Safedisc 2 / Max payne | 45:06 | 7:26 | Yes* | Yes |
| Securom new / Diablo 2 Expansion | 2:16 | 2:18 | Yes | Yes |
| CDCops 2.04/Flaaklypa grand prix expansion | 3:07 | 2: 49 | No | No |
| Tagé¨s / Motoracer 3 | 2:55 | 241 | No | No |
| Physical errors / Settlers 3 | 57:23 | 11h 31m 28s | Yes | Yes |
| Laserlock / Desperados | 1h 15m 52s | 3h 25m 12s | Yes | Yes |
| Protect CD / Settlers 3: Quest of the amazons | 4h 30m 11s | 20m 36s | Yes | Yes |
| Safedisc 2 v2.51.021 / Serious sam 2 | 45:10 | 7:21 | No | Yes |
Both drives are able to backup a wide variety of protections, the Lite-On is faster at reading safedisc 1 and 2 protected discs, but is dirt slow at reading physical errors and laserlock.
The Mitsumi is lacking 'Correct EFM encoding of regular bit-patterns" support, and because of this it can't successfully beat Safedisc 2 version 2.51.021. The Lite-On is the winner of this test since it does support it.
Reading protected audio discs:We only had one protected audio disc available and that is a Cactus datashield CDS100 CD. It's Westlife: World of our own.
Result: Not much to say, both drives failed to extract any data from the disc. Program used: Feurio, CloneCD and Exact audio copy.
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Posted by cyco_onyx on Monday 25 February 2002 19:54
Excellent review! I personally own a mitsumi 4809, and although i do love lite-ons for their excellent EFM burning(i still have my lite-on 12x), the lite-ons in my opinion are not as solidly build as the mitsumi's. One thing i'd like to note is that significantly better burning times were noted when using NTI's cd software. NTI's clock stops right as the drive stops burning(avg of 3:50 burn time for 700 megs), while nero keeps counting all the way until the cd ejects. Maybe some day you can try using NTI's software in your testing. Btw, you guys have the best overall analysis of cd drives on the web... just my 2 cents....
Posted by alex1970 on Tuesday 26 February 2002 15:00
Just one question: why don't you try to read also BAD discs, I mean discs with scratch, dirt and so on... I bought two weeks ago a nice Samsung SW-224. It seams that every horrible disc that I have (audio, CDR and also CDRW) is read as never before! Much better than the burners I tried before: LG 16x, Teac 16x, Artec 24x.
THANK YOU AND CONGRATULATION FOR THIS SITE!
THANK YOU AND CONGRATULATION FOR THIS SITE!
Posted by OC-Freak on Tuesday 26 February 2002 15:12
Hey, it's my first review.... 
I'll see if I could include scratched media tests in my next review, to bad I don't have much scratched discs....:4
I'll see if I could include scratched media tests in my next review, to bad I don't have much scratched discs....:4
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