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Samsung BD Writer SH-B022A Reviews

We got to review Samsung’s new Blu-ray writer, the SH-B022A. It writes the largest-capacity on discs that Digit has seen thus far—50 GB Blu-ray discs! You can back up your entire
hard drive with just a handful of discs. The drive looks like an ordinary IDE optical drive with the BD marking on the bezel being the only differentiator. Build quality is average compared to the drives we have tested thus far, but the tray mechanism seems smoother, and is quite noiseless. Going well with “Blu-ray” is the blue LED that glows behind the Eject button. Blu-ray burning speed is 2x (8.78 MB/sec), a tad faster than 6x DVD (8.1 MB/sec). This doesn’t sound too good, since the much faster 16x (21.6 MB/sec) DVD writing is common today. Burning 25 GB to a 2x BD-RE (Blu-ray Disc Recordable Erasable) disc took us 47 minutes—agonisingly slow. But yes, the technology is still being improved, and given a few months, we’ll see faster Blu-ray drives. Backward compatibility has been taken care of, with support for writing to CD as well as DVD recordable media of all kinds—except DVD-RAM. The 8 MB buffer is sufficient to preclude buffer underruns. Sequential DVD-R burning took 505 seconds, while burning to a DVD+R took more than 8 minutes, both at 12x. This is slower than today’s DVD-Writers, which get the same job done in not more than 360 seconds. The drive comes bundled with CyberLink BD Solution, a software suite for burning as well as video editing, playback, and backup software. Sadly, the suite lags behind Nero by miles. Ultimately, the price takes the fun out of everything: an obscenely high Rs 22,000, keeping it out of reach of most of us. Also, A 25 GB disc is about Rs 1,500, and they aren’t easily available. But then, remember that DVD-Writers were priced at $1,500 in the early 2000s!
Specifications:
Reading: BD-ROM, BD-R, BD-RE:2x; DVD+R, DVD-R, DVD-ROM:12x; CD-R, CD-ROM: 40x.
Writing: BD-R, BD-RE: 2x;DVD+R, DVD-R: 12x; DVD+R DL, DVD-R DL: 4x; DVD+RW, DVD-
RW: 4x; CD-R: 32x; CD-RW: 24x. Buffer: 8 MB; interface: IDE...

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