Review:
Samsung SH-W162L
Reviewer: Jan70
Provided by: Samsung
Germany
Firmware: TS01 '“
TS03
Manufactured: October
2005
Samsung Germany was
kind enough to send us the SH-W162L 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 SH-W162L
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-W162L, found at Samsungs
website:
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Specifications |
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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
Left Side
Right Side
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
software, IDE cable, Audio cable, instructions and fixing screws.
Now it's time
to take a look at the drive itself:
The bezel of
the Samsung SH-W162C 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
On the top
side of the drive we found one sticker and we can read it was made in the
Philippines '“ October 2005.
Underside
Left/Right Side
On the back of
the drive starting from the left, we can see a digital audio connector; analogue
audio connector; pins and jumper to set the drive to cable select, slave or
master; IDE connector and finally the power connector.
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.
Another shot
from Nero Burning ROM:
But let us continue
this review and see how it really performs.
On the next page we
will take a look at the test machine, the software, the drive
features…………