Seek times on DVD Burners

[Ryan]

To all hardware genius's: I am debating on whether to purchase an 18x
LG or 20X Samsung burner. Because the burn speed, from what I read,
is not very great between the two I am leaning toward the LG because
it has Lightscribe. Lightscribe is not that important, but all else
being fairly equal I figured...why not. Which leads me to the one
thing that is not equal and my question.

The drives I am considering are:

LG-GSAH44LB and Samsung SH-202G.

The LG has the following DVD amd CD Seek times: 145ms and 135ms
(respectively)

Although I could not find exact stats, but based on other similar
Samsung models, I believe its DVD and CD seek times are: 130ms and
110ms (respectively).

Is this a significant difference? Is it a difference I should be
concerned about? I imagine for writing it would not matter, but this
drive will become my main DVD/CD drive, so its read performance
matters somewhat.

Please let me know! Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks!

 

[Marcel Overweel]

To all hardware genius's: I am debating on whether to purchase an 18x
LG or 20X Samsung burner. Because the burn speed, from what I read,
is not very great between the two I am leaning toward the LG because
it has Lightscribe. Lightscribe is not that important, but all else
being fairly equal I figured...why not. Which leads me to the one
thing that is not equal and my question.

The drives I am considering are:

LG-GSAH44LB and Samsung SH-202G.

The LG has the following DVD amd CD Seek times: 145ms and 135ms
(respectively)

Although I could not find exact stats, but based on other similar
Samsung models, I believe its DVD and CD seek times are: 130ms and
110ms (respectively).

Is this a significant difference? Is it a difference I should be
concerned about? I imagine for writing it would not matter, but this
drive will become my main DVD/CD drive, so its read performance
matters somewhat.

Please let me know! Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks!

For playing music or videos, the seek time is not important.
For games, it can make a little bit of a difference when loading levels
or such, but it is very minimal. And most games install the main files
on the harddisk.
I don't think you will notice the difference.
For picture cd's/dvd's.. maybe... a little.

Spin-up time is another story.
In my experience: the faster the drive, the more time it takes to get
spinning at full velocity *before* file transfer can start (and this is
not the seek time they mention).
Problem is, most companies don't mention the spin-up time.

Regards,
Marcel

 

[Crazy Noddy]

For playing music or videos, the seek time is not important.
For games, it can make a little bit of a difference when loading levels
or such, but it is very minimal. And most games install the main files
on the harddisk.
I don't think you will notice the difference.
For picture cd's/dvd's.. maybe... a little.

Spin-up time is another story.
In my experience: the faster the drive, the more time it takes to get
spinning at full velocity *before* file transfer can start (and this is
not the seek time they mention).
Problem is, most companies don't mention the spin-up time.

Regards,
Marcel

All games load all the data from the HDD now, there are a few that give you
the option to load some of it from the DVD drive but it is much better to
use the option to install all data to the HDD. As for DVD-RW drives, no one
is going to notice the difference in access time unless you are using
benchmarking software. I hate noisy fast optical drives so I look for quiet
drives and for me that means Samsung. Samsung includes software that allows
you to set the drive to fast mode or quiet mode. I never install that
software and it is quiet so I guess the default is quiet mode. My current
DVD-RW is Samsung SH-S183L which has Lightscribe and DVD-RAM and is a SATA
model. I'm happy with it and I never intend to use Lightscribe or DVD-RAM
anyway. I read that DVD-RAM disks are only made by Memorex and are next to
impossible to find in N.A. for some reason.