Toshiba TS-H652D Review

DVD READING TESTS

DVD Read Performance

DVD-R READING

The Toshiba performed well but is limited to 12 speed reading of recorded DVD-R disks.

DVD-RW READING

The drive doesn't have any problems with our media but is capped at 8 speed.

DVD-ROM SINGLE LAYER READING

The drive does fairly well and doesn't have too much difficulty reading the end of the disk at its maximum speed of 16x speed.

DVD+RW READING

The drive can only read +RW disks at a max of 8 speed, it is no competition for the LG drive.

DVD+R READING

With +R disks it performs very well and averages 9.15 speed.

DVD-R DUAL LAYER READING

The drive can only read dual layer disks at 8x speed max.

DVD-RAM READING

Disc type: : DVD-RAM
Manufacturer: : Matsushita Electric Industrial CO.,LTD.
MID : M01J5006
Write speeds: : 2 X - 2 X - 3 X - 5 X
Blank Capacity : 4.27 GB
: 4368 MB
: 4580771840 bytes
Copyright protection : CPRM

Some of the newer DVD Writers on the market can now read and write the DVD-RAM format, above we used a Verbatim x5 disk which was actually made by Matsushita (Note this test will be updated once we get our delivery of 12x DVD-RAM disks).

DVD CSS Video Ripping

I 21:11:35 Operation Started!
I 21:11:35 Source Device: [1:0:0] TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS-H652D TI06 (E:)
I 21:11:35 Destination Folder: J:\LOTR_SEE_D2\VIDEO_TS\
I 21:11:35 Detect Mastering Errors: No
I 21:11:35 Fast Error Skip: No
I 21:11:35 File Splitting: By File
I 21:11:35 Multi Angle Processing: No
I 21:11:35 Remove Macrovision Protection: Yes
I 21:11:35 Stream Processing: No
...
I 21:27:43 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:16:07
I 21:27:43 Average Read Rate: 8,141 KB/s (5.9x) - Maximum Read Rate: 11,756 KB/s (8.5x)

Toshiba TS-H652D Average Rip Speed: 5.9 x

The Toshiba TS-H652D is an average ripper of DVD movies, peaking at 8.5x speed with a total average read rate of 5.9x 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-H652D DVD writer performs fairly well, needing only 18 mins 38 seconds.

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