#Samsung super writemaster driver upgrade#

This is a bit of a shame, especially since 6x DVD-RW and 6x DVD-R DL media is now available.

#Samsung super writemaster driver upgrade#

I had hoped that a new firmware flash would upgrade the TS-H552, but after downloading the latest firmware and installing it, the specifications stayed resolutely the same as before. While both the NEC and Plextor PX-716A could also write to DVD-R Dual Layer media as well. Most new drives are offering support for faster DVD+RW and DVD-RW writing, as the NEC ND-3540A showed. The CD-RW performance was reported correctly, and the drive just blazed through the format and the 600MB burn.īut despite the undeniably impressive performance shown by the TS-H552, I have to say that I am a little disappointed that the specifications are as conservative as they are. What was surprising is that Nero reported the CD-R performance to be only 40x, despite the 48x specification, but looking at the results the drive was clearly writing at the faster rate. If you’re still burning a lot of CD media, you’re going to love this drive, with every test whether on CD-R or CD-RW media coming in under three minutes. But to be fair the NEC is a 6x DVD-RW drive while the Samsung is only rated at a more conservative 4x. The DVD-RW times were consistently good, with only the NEC ND-3540A putting the Samsung in the shade. DVD+R performance wasn’t quite so impressive, but it was still consistently good and up there with the best of the competition.

Every single result that the Samsung turned in was below six minutes, undercutting the competition by a significant margin. Next there’s the DVD-R tests, and here the TS-H552 just flew. Here the Samsung turned in some pretty respectable times, but not quite as fast as the Toshiba SDR-5372 which was also rated at 5x.

Let’s look at the DVD+R Dual Layer performance first. There aren’t really any outstanding performances in evidence across all the tests, but what you can see from the graphs is that the TS-H552 turned in consistently good times across the board, whereas many drives I test tend to excel with some media and fall behind with other formats. And that really sums up this drive from Samsung – solid.