


Of course you can't do this with just any drive, media or software.

According to HP, it's as simple as burning the data, flipping the disc, and then burning the label. Developed by HP, LightScribe lets you burn durable, silk screen quality labels directly onto your CD's and DVD's using the same drive that burned the data. The SH-S223Q is one of the latest drives from Samsung to feature LightScribe technology. The specs below have been taken from Samsung's website and by running a few simple tests. By looking at the picture below you can see the drive's SATA interface and power connector. The rear of the SH-S223Q is fairly straight forward. Off by default, this LED lights up green when the drive is reading or writing. Along with the large "Super WriteMaster" logo, you can see a few showing support for the DVD Multi specification as well as HP's LightScribe technology.īelow the tray you can see the SH-S223Q's single LED. It not only shares the same basic bezel design, but has many of the same logos. The drive Samsung sent us for this review was manufactured in August of 2008 and came preloaded with firmware SB00. For this review we used firmware version SB03.įrom the front, the SH-S223Q looks very similar to Samsung's previous DVD writers. The drive came with copy of the software CD as well as a printed quick installation guide. The new SH-S223 drive has outstanding specs and performance that makes consumers’ digital life much easier,” said Raj Samuel, Sales and Marketing Manager, Storage division, Samsung Gulf Electronics.The SH-S223Q we received from Samsung was the bulk, or OEM, version. “Samsung is very proud to be the first company to launch the 22X DVD-W in our region. At those speed, a full 4.7GB DVD±R disc can be burned in approximately 4 minutes and 26 seconds, and takes less than 12 minutes to burn 4.7GB in DVD-RAM format.įeatures Of Samsung WriteMaster SH-S223 DVD Burner: In addition, the WriteMaster SH-S223 is able to burn at 22x speed to DVD±R media, 12x to DVD-RAM, 16x to DVD+R dual layer, 12x DVD-R dual layer, 8x DVD+RW and 6x DVD-RW. The global leader in semiconductor, telecommunication, digital media and digital convergence technologies, Samsung has announced its new Super-WriteMaster SH-S223, which the company claims as the industry’s fastest DVD burner, offering a powerful over-speed performance feature enabling users to burn data at high speeds even on low-speed media (22X speeds on 16X media and 12X speeds on 8X media).
