The specifications of the Samsung SE-T084L state that the drive is able to write CD-R discs at 24x and CD-RW at 24x. Let us find out how the drive really performs in speed and quality.

Writing Data CD-R discs:       

For our data writing tests, we simply set up a new compilation of 703Mb using Nero Burning ROM software. Writing method used is DAO (Disc At Once), and the disc is set up as a non-multisession disc with “finalize disc” enabled. The screenshot below shows how long it takes to write a disc at the highest speed. (24x)

The Samsung SE-T084L completed the burn in 6 minutes and 2 seconds.

Write quality:

We will test CD-R discs from many different CD-R manufacturers. To really measure the write speed, we used the “create data CD” function in Nero CD-Speed. The discs were written at the maximum speed that the drive supports. For the quality test, we used K-Probe 2 which is a tool developed by a Lite-On employee. It runs under Windows and works with drives made by Lite-On. Also note that different drives and different reading speeds may affect the results obtained when scanning the discs. We used a Lite-On SOHR-5238S drive with firmware 4S09 and scanned the discs at 48X speed.

A written CD-R disc will always have some C1 errors; C1 errors are easily corrected by the drive’s error correction capabilities. The next level of errors is C2, while C2 errors could also be corrected by most drive’s error correction capabilities; they are not wanted on a good quality disc. A good disc should not contain any C2 errors, and preferably have an average C1 error amount of below 2.0 for the best discs, or at least below 10.0 averages for good quality discs. After C2 errors, there are only un-correctable errors that will make a disc unusable.

An excellent result to start our CD-R quality tests, (highly recommended).

Another excellent result (highly rcommended).

Our RICOH media manufactured by Moser Baer India has burned with excellent quality (highly recommended).

Once again we have an excellent result, (highly recommended).

The result is excellent (highly recommended).

Once again we have an excellent result (highly recommended).

Writing Quality with Re-Writable discs:

The result is good.

Summary:

CD-R writing quality is excellent with the Samsung SE-T084L and CD-RW was also good with our tested media.

Now let’s head on to the next page where we will test DVD recordable performance….

Reading performance

DVD+R/RW Writing performance