| Review: Samsung TS-H552B |
Samsung Europe was kind enough to send us the Samsung TS-H552B DVD-writer. This drive supports 16x DVD+R writing, 12x DVD-R and 2.4x DVD+R9 DL writing technology, allowing dual layer discs of 8.5Gb to be written.
Samsung has developed and produced optical drives since 1994. In 2004, they joined up with Toshiba for manufacturing and developing optical drives.
Company information:
We are sure that most of you know Samsung/TSST already, but let us take a look at some of the company information found at: www.samsung.com / www.tsstorage.com
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If you are interested in reading more company information, please visit: www.samsung.com / www.tsstorage.com
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What's inside the box?
On this page we will take a look at what the drive came shipped with and take a look at the drive and its technology.
Front
Back
Top
Bottom
Left/Right side
Below you will see the contents of the retail box:
- The drive itself
- Audio cable
- Pinnacle installation CD
- IDE cable
- 4 mounting screws
- Quick install guide
Now it's time to take a look at the drive itself:
A standard bezel with logos of supported writing formats '“ except for the DVD+R9 DL logo - which is missing. Head phone connector and volume knob is missing too. The drive uses one small coloured led (green) for read and write (we prefer a different led colour though for writing). The eject knob is transparent and in 'the dark" it 'flashes" together with the read/write led.
On top of the drive we found three stickers and we can read it was manufactured in Korea , dated September 2004.
On the back of the drive from left to right: digital audio connector, analogue audio connector, pins and jumper to set the drive to cable select, slave or master, IDE connector and the power connector.
We installed the drive without any problems and here is a screenshot from Nero info tool:
Our drive shipped with firmware TS04 and it is the latest one available (for the public). From the screenshot of Nero InfoTool above, we miss Mt.Rainier support and a larger buffer size.
And another shot from Nero Burning ROM:
We do not really find anything alarming here, but Mount Rainier and a larger buffer would have been nice.
But let us continue this review and see how it really performs.
On the next page we will take a look at the test machine, the software, the drive features and the included software…………