Toshiba SD-R5372 Review

DVD READING TESTS

DVD Read Performance

For our read tests we tried various types of DVD recordable media, which included: DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD+R, DVD-RAM and a pressed DVD-ROM disk.

DVD-R READING

Firstly we checked its performance with a DVD-R disk using Nero CD Speed (DVD Speed incorporated):

The Toshiba performed well but is limited to 12 reading.

DVD-RW READING

The drive doesn't have any problems with our media but is capped at 6 speed.

DVD-ROM SINGLE LAYER READING

The drive does fairly well and doesn't have too much difficulty reading the end of the disk.

DVD+RW READING

Unusually the drive only reads +RW disks at 4 speed.

DVD+R READING

With +R disks it performs very well and averages 10.61 speed.

DVD+R DOUBLE LAYER READING

DVD-RAM CADDY-LESS READING

The drive can read DVD-RAM disks as shown above but its performance was very slow averaging 1.59x.

DVD CSS Video Ripping

I 15:57:11 DVD Decrypter Version 3.5.1.0 started!
I 15:58:08 Operation Started!
I 15:58:08 Source Device: [0:0:0] TOSHIBA CD/DVDW SD-R5372 TU53 (E:) (ATA)
I 15:58:08 Source Media Type: DVD-ROM
I 15:58:08 Source Media Region Code: 2
I 15:58:08 Source Copyright Protection System Type: CSS/CPPM
I 15:58:08 Destination Folder: J:\DVDrippingTest\
I 15:58:08 Detect Mastering Errors: No
I 15:58:08 File Splitting: By File
I 15:58:08 Multi Angle Processing: No
I 15:58:08 Remove Macrovision Protection: Yes
I 15:58:08 Stream Processing: No
...
I 16:15:38 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:17:30
I 16:15:38 Average Read Rate: 7,497 KB/s (5.4x) - Maximum Read Rate: 10,742 KB/s (7.8x)

Toshiba SD-R5372 Average Rip Speed: 5.4 x

The Toshiba SD-R5372 is an average ripper of DVD movies, peaking at 7.8x speed with a total average read rate of 5.4x speed.

ERROR CORRECTION - SCRATCHED DVD

No one manages to keep CD/DVDs in pristine condition so in this test we compared how the drive copes with scratches and unreadable data. Different drives handle scratched / unreadable DVDs differently - some can take hours to read in data, whilst others have inferior error correction abilities and can only read limited data from the disk. Toshiba DVD-ROMs from Japan (not the new Samsung made ones) were regarded as good fast readers.

For this test we used a disk with 3 scratches, ink, finger prints, dust on a Ritek disk. We used Nero CD-DVD speed disk's scan disk function under "surface scan" mode to find out how much was unreadable. The Toshiba SD-R5372 DVD writer performs extremely well in this test and slowed down only once - it read the entire disk in 13 mins and 08 seconds making this drive the fastest drive we have ever used for this test.

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