Toshiba TS-H652D
/ Samsung SH-S182D Review
Specifications
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Model |
Samsung
SH-S182D (TS-H652D) |
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Data
Transfer
Rate MAX |
Media
Type |
Write |
Read |
DVD+R |
18X
(24.3MB/sec) |
12X
(16.2MB/sec) |
DVD+RW |
8X
(10.8MB/sec) |
8X
(10.8MB/sec) |
DVD+R
DUAL |
8X
(10.8MB/sec) |
8X
(10.8MB/sec) |
DVD-R
DUAL |
8X
(10.8MB/sec) |
8X
(10.8MB/sec) |
DVD-R |
18X
(24.3MB/sec) |
12X
(16.2MB/sec) |
DVD-RW |
6X
(8.1MB/sec) |
8X
(10.8MB/sec) |
DVD-ROM
(Single) |
- |
16X
(21.6MB/sec) |
DVD-ROM
(Dual) |
- |
8X
(10.8MB/sec) |
CD-ROM |
- |
48X
(7.2MB/sec) |
CD-R |
48X
(7.2MB/sec) |
40X
(6.0MB/sec) |
US-RW |
32X
(4.8MB/sec) |
40X
(6.0MB/sec) |
HS-RW |
10X
(1.5MB/sec) |
40X
(6.0MB/sec) |
CD-RW |
4X
(0.6MB/sec) |
40X
(6.0MB/sec) |
DVD-RAM |
12X
(16.2MB/sec) |
12X
(16.2MB/sec) |
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Access
Time |
CD-ROM
110ms (Random) / DVD-ROM
130ms (Random) |
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Data
transfer mode |
Ultra
DMA Mode 2
: 33.3MB/sec,
PIO Mode 4
: 16.7MB/sec |
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Interface |
ATA/ATAPI |
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Buffer
Memory |
2M |
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Drive
Install Form |
Horizontal
/ Vertical |
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Size
(W * H * L) |
148.2 × 42 × 170mm
(including bezel) |
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Disk
Format |
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DVD
:
DVD-R, DVD-RW,
DVD+R, DVD+RW,
DVD-ROM, DVD-Video,
DVD+R (Dual),
DVD-R (Dual),
DVD-RAM FAT32
support (FAT
16 does not support),
Multi-Session(Read/Write),
Multi-Border(Read)
CD :
CD-ROM, CD-R,
CD-RW, CD-DA,
CD+E(G), CD-MIDI,
CD-TEXT, CD-ROM
XA, Mixed Mode
CD, CD-I, CD-I
bridge (Photo-CD,
Video-CD), Multi-Session
CD (Photo CD,
CD-EXTRA, Portforio) |
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Buffer
Protection |
Applied |
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Lead
Free |
Applied |
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Light
Scribe |
NON
applied |
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Our Test Machine's Specs:
Pentium 4 3GHz (not over clocked)
1GB RDRAM
ABIT Motherboard
Toshiba Introduction
This DVD-Writer is
collaboration with Samsung and
sold under the Toshiba Samsung
Storage Technologies (TSST)
label. Headquartered in Japan and
Korea, TSST (Toshiba Samsung Storage
Technologies) is 51 per cent owned
by Toshiba and 49 per cent owned
by Samsung. The TSST joint venture
includes product and business planning,
product development, procurement
and sales for optical disc drives
(ODDs), world-wide.
A little history
about Toshiba's storage division:
Toshiba Storage
Device Division (former "Disk
Product Division") has been
in existence since 1972 when it began
producing 14 inch Hard Disk Drives
for the OEM market place. In 1975
it started the production of 8 inch
Hard Disk Drives for the then infant
computer industry in Europe, followed
by 5.25 inch, 3.5 inch and 2.5 inch
hard drives. As the industry continued
to grow Toshiba established a European
presence in 1987 based in Neuss,
Germany. Toshiba's presence in Europe
has since expanded to include sales
and support offices in the U. K.& the
Republic of Ireland. Toshiba was
the first manufacturer to offer a
2.5 inch 40 MB HDD using two glass
platters. Nowadays Toshiba reinforces
its industry-leading position with
new high-capacity, high-performance
2.5 inch hard-disk drives up to 80
GB, world leaders in their class.
Toshiba Storage Device Division is
one of the few optical storage vendors
that is able to support its European
customer base directly with local
European Sales, Marketing, Technical
and Operational staff.
Toshiba also developed the CD-ROM's successor the DVD-ROM and later the first
multifunction combination CD-Re-writer/DVD-ROM all-in-one.
This is Toshiba's
latest DVD writer and combines 18x
speed DVD+ & DVD- writing with
support for the new DVD-RAM 12 writing
specification. Highlights and prominent
features include, 18x speed DVD writing,
12x speed DVD-RAM writing, 8 x speed
Dual layer writing, 16x speed DVD-ROM
reading (only 12 speed on DVD recorded
media) and 48 speed CD-R writing.
[ This Toshiba drive
uses a Mediatek chipset and is very
similar and shares most of the internal
hardware of the Samsung
SH-S182D &
Sony DRU-830A dvd
writers. ]
In
this review we will compare it
with LG's latest dvd writer the
18x speed LG
GSA H12N drive.
What the package includes

The package contains:
- Toshiba TS-H652D
DVD±RW
Drive
- Cyberlink DVD
Software Disk
The Cyberlink software
DVD contains:
- PowerDVD 6 oem 2ch
- Power Producer 3 VR
- Power2Go 4
- InstantBurn 4
Depending on which country you
purchased the drive from you may
see a different software package
or nothing at all if you purchased
OEM.
Our drive version is Japanese which
we acquired from Tokyo.
Features

Note: Some of the features are not
compatible with the Toshiba Firmware.
The front of the drive resembles
the old style traditional
Toshiba design (rather than a Samsung
drive), with no headphone socket,
an emergency eject hole and one multipurpose
LED. The Toshiba style drives made
by TSST have the traditional old
style square eject button.
The back of the drive looks very
similar to any other ATAPI CD/DVD
writer.
You will find the usual connectors:
jumpers for making the drive a Master/Slave/Cable
Select, an analogue audio output
connector, a digital audio output
connector and a power connector.

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