Performance in Nero CD-DVD Speed: Advanced DAE Error Correction Test

To check out the ability of the drives to process errors occurring during extraction of audio tracks I used the specialized Advanced DAE Error Correction Test with the same bad compact disc prepared by Nero CD-DVD Speed. The test utility determines how many C2 errors should be found by the drive and how many it does find, producing Quality Score and C2 Accuracy parameters which reflect the efficiency of the hardware error correction mechanism of the optical drive.

The LG GDR-8163B can be considered the winner of this test, as it has no C2 errors and stops very short of 100% Quality Score. The Samsung TS-H352 has somewhat humbler results, but I can’t call them bad, either.

Performance in Nero CD-DVD Speed: CD Quality Check

The CD Quality Check test is trying to read a bad compact disc in the optical drive:

Samsung TS-H352

Alas, I couldn’t check the drive from LG in this test: the utility probably doesn’t support the given optical drive model (the utility is being constantly updated to support more devices and offer more features). As for the Samsung TS-H352, it read the disc through at a constant angular velocity and made no errors.