Author’s page:

Introduction:

On this page, the author of the review has the freedom to run tests that she/he thinks will enhance the review. These tests, unlike our standard tests, which we try to keep consistent throughout the whole review team, so that our reviews are as consistent as possible. This page gives the reviewer the opportunity to show some advanced and/or real world tests that other review team members may not be able to run.

Advanced tests:

To round off this review, we will run some advanced tests on the HP DVD-1040e. These tests are: “Sheep Test”, and some special disc tests.

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 and be found here.

In the screenshot below taken from CloneCD, we see the Pioneer DVR-115D supports everything.

The HP DVD-1040e supports DAO-RAW96 recording mode, which basically means, it can write uncorrected data and sub-channel data.

No surprise here, like many other DVD burners the HP DVD-1040e was successfully when doing the One Sheep and 2 Sheep test (including SD2.90) but failed at the 3Sheep test.

Overburning CD-R:

We tested the HP DVD-1040e to see if it could overburn CD-R media. The results are below.

900MB (100 minute) over-burn test:

The HP DVD-1040e reported a maximum overburn capacity of 99:54.31. We then setup a test burn with CD-Speed of slightly less than maximum and burned the disc.

As we can see, the HP DVD-1040e had no problems in writing our test disc. Now let’s see if the HP DVD-1040e can read back our created disc.

The HP DVD-1040e had no problems in reading our test disc.

This concludes our HP DVD-1040e review. To read the conclusion, click on the link below