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To round off this review we will run some advanced tests on the Toshiba SD-R5372.

Copy protection:

For this test, we will use the Sheep tests made by Alexander Noé. Why is it called sheep test? That is because the symbol of the first 1 to 1 copy program named 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 could be found here.

In the screenshot below we see that the Toshiba SD-R5372 supports all available write and read features in CloneCD:

The Toshiba SD-R5372 supports DAO-RAW96 recording mode. This means that the drive is able to write uncorrected data as well as subchannel data.

Below are our results from the 'Sheep Tests":

The Toshiba SD-R5372 qualifies as a two sheep writer, but it cannot copy discs protected with Safedisc ver 2.90 and above.

Overburning:

To test the overburning capabilities of the Toshiba SD-R5372, we used the overburning test in Nero CD/DVD-Speed.

The maximum capacity that we could reach is 95:31.18 when testing with an 80 minute Ritek CD-R.

Mini DVD-R/RW:

To test the mini DVD-R/RW capabilities of the Toshiba SD-R5372, we burned one Memorex mini DVD-R 8cm and one Verbatim mini DVD-RW 8cm.

Memorex 4x Mini DVD-R

Verbatim 2x Mini DVD-RW

The Toshiba SD-R5372 was able to complete the burn process on both disc types, but the Verbatim Mini DVD-RW took an extra long time to finish the burn process. We also checked the quality of these two discs.

The resulting disc has a PIF Average that is higher than what we would have liked to see. A good disc should not have PIF errors over 4. The transfer rate test also had some trouble, but at least the disc is fully readable and appears to be in working condition.

There is a huge spike in the PI/PIF graph and the disc is unreadable in multiple drives. Needs improvement here!

This completes our review, head on to the last page to read our conclusion…