Samsung expands DVD burner line-up
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Oct 7, 2008 at 11:00pm
Samsung has added three new DVD burners to its Super-WriteMaster SH-S223 series. In addition to the SH-S223F DVD burner announced earlier this year, Samsung is now shipping the SH-S223Q SATA drive and the SH-S222A and SH-S222L PATA drives. The three drives share the same 22X writing speeds of approximately 29.7MB per second.
The SH-S223Q is a SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) drive with embedded LightScribe technology that lets users engrave labels, photos, and designs directly onto DVDs and CDs. The new SH-S222A and SH-S222L drives are optimized for the computer upgrade market since they have a PATA (Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment) interface. Although a majority of new computers are shipped with a SATA interface, a significant portion of consumers with older computer models are looking to upgrade their slower drives. These new PATA drives offer the speed of a leading-edge drive with the compatibility required for mature computer models, according to Samsung. Similar to the SH-S223Q, the SH-S222L drive is equipped with LightScribe technology.
The SH-S222 and SH-S223 product lines purportedly deliver over-speed recording, enabling consumers to burn data at high speeds—even faster than the speed indicated on a disc. With this technology, users can write at 22X speeds on 16X media and 12X speeds on 8X media. You’ll have to contact Samsung for pricing on the DVD burners.
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
