LiteOn LTR-52246S

 

In this part of the review we will check how the drive performs with low quality media and scratched discs. First up, the low quality media:

Low quality media

The bad disc is made by Digital Storage Technology It has been written in a Plextor 2410TA about one year ago and is continuously degrading. Compare the two scans:

In a LiteOn LTR-48125W:

And now in a LiteOn LTR-52246S:

You can see, there is not much difference. The Toshiba SD-M1502 does not recognise this disc (it never did, not even directly after burning). I also tried it in a Cyberdrive 058D. It recognised the disc, but that was all… reading was not possible.

Scratched discs

For my next test I simply scratched an existing disc. Let’s see how well the LiteOn drive can read the disc:

LiteOn LTR-48125W:

LiteOn LTR-52246S:

Toshiba SD-M1502:

The two LiteOn drives performed very similarly, however, the Toshiba drive shows much more unreadable sectors than the LiteOn drives.

Next up in our LiteOn LTR-52246S review, write strategy and speed…

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• Audio Read Tests
• Writing Tests