Is My New DVD-RW Broke?

[Major_A]

I purchased the Samsung SH-S223Q burner a few weeks ago and am very disappointed. It is a SATA drive that has DVD-R/DVD+R write speeds of 22X. I didn't anticipate finding any 22X media but I did expect it to be able to burn at 16X quite well. I was dead wrong. This drive is slower than the drive it replaced (Lite-On 20X SATA) . The reason I replaced that drive is because it has over 500 burns on it and the eject button started to get finicky. I have downloaded the latest firmware from Samsung's website and this drive is still incredibly slow. Is the drive broke or do you have any suggestions?

[DJ Tucker]

to be honest m8 i would say it is a damaged drive. that drive should run better than your previous one. now i dont know alot bout that drive but samsung are pretty good as i have a samsung 500gb hdd and it works beautifully. and i did have a samsung dvd-rw in my old system and also never had a problem. i would give you the name of that dvd-rw but cant remember the name.

[martini161]

believe it or not, the max burn speed depends on the meida. are you using 16x media?

[InspectahACE]

it shows that 18x is available on that picture..not sure if it was from the disc capability or not..but even at 16x, that timeline(from the pic) seems rather long..im not expert on drives either but i dont' recall burning a full 4.7 dvd taking that long at even 16x..i couldn't see if it was a dual layer disc or not but shouldn't take that i would imagine

[Major_A]

believe it or not, the max burn speed depends on the meida. are you using 16x media?

Yes it's 16X media. I've used Memorex DVD-R, Sony DVD+R and Memorex 16X Lightscribe media all with the same results.

it shows that 18x is available on that picture..not sure if it was from the disc capability or not..but even at 16x, that timeline(from the pic) seems rather long..im not expert on drives either but i dont' recall burning a full 4.7 dvd taking that long at even 16x..i couldn't see if it was a dual layer disc or not but shouldn't take that i would imagine

All the media I've ran through this burner so far are single layer (4.7GB) discs.

[DJ Tucker]

well you just answered your own question m8 anyway as inspectahACE as said and after i looked at the pic again i to can see that is a rather long time. but then it does depend on what speed you have made your drive run at.

my drive is an NEC AD-7200S 20x DVD+/-RW/RAM Dual Layer SATA Writer. It even has Multi-Recorder but then i'm not sure if that is standard in most CD/DVD RW's. but still i can burn DVD's at 20x as it says.

check out this little link it is everything you need to know bout your drive and yes you do after reading myself have a few problems.
http://www.testfreaks.com/blog/review/s ... omparison/

[Athlonite]

from my own experiance not all drives like the same media i had two dvd burners 1 liteon and 1 pioneer the liteon would burn tdk media full noise no probs but the pioneer used to balk at doin more than 8x burns with the same 16x media i have now found that the pioneer likes sony and ritech discs the best often allowing faster than 16x burns ...

in the pic it says the selected speed was 12x and had an average of 4.07x this is what happens when a burner doesn't like the media you may just need to find the right disc's for your drive