Sony NEC Optiarc AD-5200S

Sony NEC Optiarc AD-5200S ... the driving seat by ensuring that working with your storage media runs smooth at all times.

This high-performance DVD/CD Writer is able to read your DVDs at speeds of 16x. With CDs, its speed is 48x. And it also brings fascinating dynamics into play in writing your recordable media.

It deals masterfully with the DVD-R and +R formats at speeds of 20x. The DVD-R DL two layer media can be written with max. 12x, DVD +RW and DVD +R9 at speeds of 8x and DVD-RW at 6x. You may ask what its numbers in burning CDs are. Even here, with speeds of 48x (CD-R) and 32x (CD-RW), it is the best in its class.