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Review:
Samsung SE-W164L |
Samsung Germany was kind enough to send us the SE-W164L for review. In this review we will be seeing how this drive from one the world’s largest electronics manufacturers performs in our tests.
The Samsung SE-W164L supports 16x DVD±R, 8x/6x DVD+RW/-RW, and 8x/4x DVD+R DL/-R DL writing technology, allowing Double/Dual Layer discs of 8.5Gb to be written. This drive is also the first drive from Samsung that supports LightScribe direct disc labelling.
Company information:
We are sure that most of you know Samsung already, but let us take a look at some of the company information found at: www.samsungoms-europe.com
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If you are interested in reading more company information, please visit: www.samsungoms-europe.com
Drive specifications:
Now let us take a look at the specifications of the Samsung SE-W164L, found at Samsungs website:
What’s inside the box?
In this section we will take a look at what the drive came shipped with and take a look at the drive and its technology.
Front
Back
Top
Bottom
Right and Left Sides
Below you will see the contents of the retail box:
The drive supplied was the retail version. As we can see the drive is supplied with power supply, power cable (EU), power cable (UK), USB cable, vertical mount stand, software, and instructions.
Now it’s time to take a look at the drive itself:
The bezel of the Samsung SE-W164L is pleasingly styled. We can see an emergency eject hole, a single green coloured LED for read and write (we prefer a different led colour though for writing) and an eject button. The logos include the LightScribe logo, the WritemasterTM logo, the SAMSUNG logo, a DVD Forum DVD-R/RW logo, a DVD Alliance DVD+ReWritable logo and a CD-RW High Speed+ logo.
Top
Bottom
On the underside of the drive we found two labels and we can read it was made in Indonesia ‘“ October 2005.
On the back of the drive starting from the left, we can see the USB connector, cooling vents, power connector, and finally the power switch.
We installed the drive without any problems and here is a screenshot from Nero InfoTool:
From the screenshot of Nero InfoTool above, we miss Mt.Rainier support and a larger buffer size. Our drive came shipped with firmware TS01, but was later updated with firmware TS02 and TS03.
On the next page we will take a look at the test machine, the software, the drive features…………