Optical Drive errors

[jeffreywilens]

I had a Samsung 22x SATA DVDRW, It kept freezing playing DVD movies so I ran BurnItTest and got dozens or more than 100 errors in 15 minutes (ran multiple tests).

I bought a new drive. Slight newer version Samsung 24x SATA DVDiARW SH-224BB/BEBE

Ran two BurnIn 15 minutes tests at 100% optical drive only and got two errors. Since I am using a commercial DVD (Hunger Games) would this be normal due to some copy protection elements of the disc?

[David (PassMark)]

It is possible, deliberate errors are often included for copy protection.

Better to use a disk without any possibility of copy protection.

There is our pre-made media here,
http://www.passmark.com/products/testcddvd.htm

Or you have make your own,
http://www.passmark.com/products/cdmaker.htm