Samsung SE-S084C External DVD Writer Review

Positive:

·         Generally good/excellent DVD+R/RW writing quality and performance.

·         Generally excellent CD-R/RW writing quality.

·         Sleek and stylish design.

·         Excellent reading performance and reliability.

·         Supports 8x/6x DVD+RW/-RW writing speeds.

·         Excellent build quality.

·         Supports BitSetting (BookType DVD-ROM) on DVD+R/RW/DL.

·         Fast at writing DVD-/+R media.

·         Fast at writing DVD-/+R DL media.

·         Good community support here at MyCE.

·         Good software bundle.

·         Small size and portable.

·         USB powered.

Negative:

·       DVD-R writing quality on a few media could be improved.

·       DVD-R DL writing quality could be improved.

·       Slow compared to standard-sized drives.

Conclusion:

Let us summarise the most important positive and negative points below:

The main Positive points:

The Samsung SE-S084C was able to burn all our tested CD-R media with excellent/very good quality..

The Samsung SE-S084C wrote our tested DVD+R/RW media with very good/excellent quality.

The software bundle is also of a high standard and should provide all the essential tools for burning CD and DVD media.

Reading performance and reliability was excellent.

The Samsung SE-S084C is small and easily portable.

Our retail drive was also supplied with Nero Essentials 8, and should be very capable of meeting most people’s media burning requirements.

The Samsung SE-S084C is beautifully designed and has a very sleek look, and the build quality is excellent.

The main negative points:

There are not many negative things to say about the Samsung SE-S084C. The drive is slow at reading and writing compared to a modern 20x/22x DVD Re-Writer.

Writing quality on our tested DVD-R and DVD-R DL media could be improved – all of our DVD-R and DVD-R DL test discs had re-link spikes. While these may not cause any problem for most users, we would rather these spikes were not there.

To sum up, this is what we would say:

“The Samsung SE-S084C is beautifully designed and reliable and has a great feature set. It’s small, portable, and it performs extremely well”.

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