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Samsung SH-D162C

I bought the Samsung/Toshiba SH-D162C in Germany for EUR 13, which makes it a very affordable drive. As we will see though, it offers quality of operation equivalent to much pricier drives from established manufacturesrs like Plextor etc. First impressions: pretty heavy, sturdy built, eject ... Read review

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Reviews of Samsung SH-D162C »

1 review

Affordable quality drive

Advantages: Good quality; quiet operation; very affordable
Disadvantages: Rather high CPU usage

...the drive's cache size? The Samsung has only 256kB of cache (as opposed to the Plextor's 2MB).
DAE quality was rated "10" (perfect) with the "Accurate Stream" feature present.
CPU usage with CD-R dics was fairly good for a quality drive: 0% at 1x, 1% at 2x, 2% at 4x and 4% at 8x.
CPU usage reading DVDs seemed staggeringly high at first glance:
6 % at 1x, 19 % at 2X, 47 % at 4X and 77 % at 8x reading ...
...9 % at 1x, 35 % at 2x, 55 % at 4x and "n/a" (out of range? ;-)) at 8X.

Then I measured CPU usage with the (generally acclaimed) Plextor drive: it was just as high.

Not being an expert in this field I can only speculate that during normal operation CPU usage won't be a problem; DVD film playback occurs at 1x; audio file playback off DVDs also doesn't require higher read speeds. Aside from file copying, the only ... more

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