Samsung Writemaster DVD Burner SH-S162L

Thursday, May 11th, 2006 | DVD and CD Drive Reviews, News

DVD writers can be fairly boring things to look at, unlike other parts of the computer like video cards and motherboards things don’t jump ahead and offer flashy upgrades.

DVD burners are however a very necessary part of many desktop computers, and though they are sometimes only used occassionally, they are a pain when they don’t work.

If you use them all the time, the concern falls to whether they will operate at the speeds that they claim they will, and for everyone it is a matter of reliability. With many discs being wasted through bad burns, and much frustration being created at the same time, it is still of vital importance that the drive actually works, all the time.

The Samsung DVD writer does that with ease. It does not stand out as anything spectacular, but in tests at Techgage it managed to not produce any coasters and managed all of the discs even while multi-tasking.

In the tests a CD took just under 3 minutes, a single layer DVD took around 6 and a dual-layer took 43 minutes. The slow speed of the dual-layer is just due to the technology and is still much slower than single layer.

With no gripes and complete success with the main tasks this writer will be suitable for all your applications. If you are looking for something reliable then this will do the trick, and for my liking that does it for a DVD burner.