Samsung SE-S084 External DVD Writer Review

Performance

We made some tests to evaluate the performance from Samsung SE-S084C/RSBN. In all tests we used Nero 8 Essentials to burn a DVD image with 3,895,552 bytes to a standard 8x Verbatim DataLifePlus DVD-R (P/N 94852).

First we burned the DVD with the internal DVD writer that came with our Sony Vaio VGN-N325E laptop (Pentium Dual Core T2080, 2 GB RAM), a Matsushita UJ-850S, which is also an 8x DVD writer. This drive took 821 seconds (13 minutes and 41 seconds) to burn this DVD.

Then we connected Samsung SE-S084C/RSBN to this laptop and burned the same DVD. It took 751 seconds (12 minutes and 31 seconds). So it was faster than the internal DVD writer from our laptop. Nice.

We decided to then compare it to a desktop DVD writer. Our desktop was using a faster CPU (Core 2 Duo E6600) but with the same amount of RAM (2 GB). Installed on this computer Samsung SE-S084C/RSBN took 661 seconds (11 minutes and one second) to burn the same DVD, so as you can see DVD burning speed also depends on your PC configuration.

Then we burned the same DVD using a desktop writer (Lite-On LH-20A1L, the one shown on Figures 3 and 4), which also has a nominal 8x DVD-R burning speed. With this drive the burning process took 456 seconds (seven minutes and 36 seconds).

So while Samsung SE-S084C/RSBN was slower than a desktop drive, it was faster than an internal laptop drive.