ASUS DRW-1608P2 DVD Burner Review

To round off this review, we will run some advanced tests on the ASUS DRW-1608P2.

The ‘Sheep Test”:

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

In the screenshot below taken from CloneCD, we see the ASUS DRW-1608P2 supports everything.

The ASUS DRW-1608P2 supports DAO-RAW96 recording mode, which basically means, it can write uncorrected data and sub-channel data.

As we can see from the table the ASUS DRW-1608P2 is a ‘Two Sheep Burner”, but it however failed to write the Safedisc V2.90 and Sheep3 tests.

CD-R Overburning test:

To test the CD-R overburning capabilities of ASUS DRW-1608P2, we used the overburning test in Nero CD-DVD Speed. For this test we used unbranded Infodisc 99min/900mb CD-R.

The ASUS DRW-1608P2 reported an overburn capacity of 90 Minutes and 23 Seconds, so we attempted to created a test disc slightly smaller then the max reported overburn capacity. See below:

There are no problem writing this media around 90 minutes.

DVD+R Overburning test:

To test the DVD+R overburning capabilities of the ASUS DRW-1608P2, we used the overburning test in Nero CD-DVD Speed

According to our test using Nero CD-DVD Speed the drive cannot overburn DVD+R discs.

This concludes our ASUS DRW-1608P2 review, lets head on to the last page to read our conclusion…