Lite-On LTR-52327S
provided by Lite-On IT
reviewed by Andrew Chalfant
current price: ~ 45 US Dollars
Drive Information
CloneCD Info:
As we have come to expect from Lite-On's drives, the LTR-52327S can do everything that CloneCD tests for, minus of course the DVD reading capabilities. Like its predecessors, the LTR-52327S was able to make copies of Serious Sam 2, Max Payne, and the Diablo II Play Disc. All were playable in the test bed's Toshiba 16x DVD drive.
Benchmarks
Test Bed -
AMD Athlon XP 1900+
Soyo Dragon KT333 Ultra
512MB PC2100 DDR
Asus GeForce 3 Original
Maxtor D740X 40GB Quiet Drive ATA/133
Lite-On LTR-52327S
Toshiba 16x DVD-ROM
The CD that was used for most of the testing was the Nine Inch Nails CD "...And All That Could Have Been", which is almost exactly 74 minutes in length. For testing the drive's ability to read recorded media, a copy was made on Taiyo Yuden 52x media. The same media was used for testing the drives ability to write to CD-R. Finally, a copy of Deus Ex was burned onto a Maxell 32x CD-RW in order to test CD ReWriting capabilities.
Read Tests - Pressed Media
CD-ReWriter |
LTR-52327S |
Average Read Speed |
36.54x |
Start Read Speed |
22.45x |
Final Read Speed |
48.01x |
Random Seek Time |
84 ms |
The LTR-52327S only finishes up at 48x when it hits the 74 minute mark, but when tested on overburned CDs the drive well exceeded 52x. I am also told that the new firmware will increase compatibility with more media and increase reading performance. Otherwise, the drive reads pressed media comparably well.
Read Tests - Recorded Media
| CD-ReWriter | LTR-52327S |
| Average Read Speed | 36.34x |
| Start Read Speed | 22.61x |
| Final Read Speed | 47.70 |
| Random Seek Time | 91 ms |
There is essentially no difference between reading pressed and recorded media for the LTR-52327S.
Write Test
Writing an additional 600 KB/s does not improve the speeds for writing very much at all; a mere three second increase over the LTR-48246S is not a compelling reason to upgrade for those who already have 40x or 48x CD-RW drives.
ReWrite Test
This is the reason to upgrade. If you rewrite at all, the 32x RW capability is fantastic. In 3:08 the LTR-52327S was not only able to record but overburn 786 MB of data. The game that was copied was installable and playable from the RW - the quality of the ReWrite was not sacrificed in order to increase speed.