Real world tests:

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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 are unlike our standard tests, which we try to keep consistent throughout the whole review team, so that our reviews are as comparable as possible. This page gives the reviewer the opportunity to show some advanced and real world tests that other review team members may not be able to run.

Real World tests:

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Real world tests are designed to simulate what normal users might use their drives for in everyday use. For example, writing discs with a burning application.

Audio Extraction:

For this test we used Exact Audio Copy (EAC) to extract the audio to our hard drive. According to EAC the Lite-ON eSEU206 does support caching, Accurate Stream and C2 Error Info.

Below are the results produced by EAC:

Burst mode

Secure mode

The Lite-On eSEU206 performed very well in the “Burst mode” and as expected was slower when reading in secure mode.

Nero Burning Rom:

In the following tests we will burn discs from the main media groups with Nero Burning Rom.

CD-R:

For our data writing tests, we simply set up a new compilation of 695MB using Nero Burning ROM software. The writing method used is DAO (Disc At Once), and the disc is set up as a non-multisession disc with “finalize disc” enabled. The screenshot below shows how long it takes to write a disc at the highest speed. (24x)

The Lite-On eSEU206 burned our test CD-R at 24x in 5 minutes and 3 seconds.

Let’s compare with other drives in our table below.

As we can see the eSEU206 was the fastest drive that we have tested so far.

DVD R:

In this test we will measure the time for writing to DVD R discs. We used Nero Burning Rom to burn a data compilation containing 4.3GB of data. We used the Disc-At-Once write method.

The Lite-On eSEU206 burned our test DVD R at 8x in 10 minutes and 36 seconds.

Let’s compare with other drives in our table below.

Again we can see that the drive shows excellent performance.

DVD DL:

In this test we will measure the time for writing to DVD R DL discs. We used Nero Burning Rom to burn a data compilation containing 7.92GB of data. We used the Disc-At-Once write method.

The Lite-On eSEU206 burned our test DVD R DL at 4x in 30 minutes and 13 seconds.

Let’s compare with other drives in our table below.

The LiteON eSEU206 can only burn at 4x, and therefore it finishes in last place.

CSS Encrypted DVD-Video ripping tests:

Most modern DVD burners don’t have Video riplock and in most cases will read a pressed DVD-Video SL disc at 16x speed. However, some drives use a CSS riplock when it comes to extracting data from the disc. If you attempt to rip a pressed DVD-Video with CSS encryption to your hard drive, then the ripping speed may be locked at a much lower speed than 16x.

Of course, running this test on a slimline drive, we can expect the results to be much slower than running the tests on a modern full sized internal DVD writer. However, we felt that this would be an interesting and useful test.

We should point out, that ripping and compressing a DL DVD-Video disc to DVD 5 format is quite CPU intensive. The more power your system has, the less likely your system power will affect the results. The PC used in this review is equipped with a fast Intel Quad Core processor and fast hard drives. We checked to make sure our review PC was not having an impact on the results.

For this test we will use Fengtao Software’s DVDFab.

BD-ROM:

BD-Video single layer “Underworld”. It took 22minutes and 29 seconds to finish ripping the disc to the hard drive.

BD-Video double layer “Quantum of Solace”. It took 61minutes and 28 seconds to finish ripping the entire disc to the hard drive.

DVD-ROM:

DVD-Video single layer “Dario Argento’s Phantom of the opera”

DVD-Video double layer “Iron man”

Thanks to Fengtao Software – For providing a full DVD Fab licence.

The Lite-On eSEU206 isn’t video_ts riplocked, the result is a very good result considering that this is a slimdrive.

To compare with other drives, we present the table below.

As we can see the eSEU206 is the fastest drive that we tested so far.

This concludes our Lite-On eSEU206 review. To read the conclusion, click on the link below

• DVD+R DL/-R DL Writing performance
• Conclusion