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Liteon LTR-40125W
by ideal
Don?t be put off by the name, it sounds like its going to be very average, but it certainly isn?t. I bought it because it was to cheep, to replace my aging 8 speed Panasonic. I was very surprised by its performance In a previous review it was said to be noisy, but I found it to be one of the quietest 40 speed drives I have ... ever herd.
The nero software that was included with the drive, is excellent.
It supports every format I can think of, cd ?rw, cd text, overburn, 99 min cd?s
I have ripped audio cd?s at 30-38 x, without so much as a blip.
It can read cd?s that other drives don?t even recognise.
Over 50 cd?s written with no failures
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Liteon LTR-40125W
by blueeyedguy
I bought this machine for just £50 which i consider to be a great bargain, especially when i found it came bundled with NERO, and InCD as well as 1xCDRW and 1xCDR media. No troubles setting it up, the only annoyance i have with it is the noise it makes when reading cds ... be warned this isnt quiet. also the open ... mechanism is a little slow on my machine - when i first opened it i thought it wasn't going to make it... although it seems to be getting better the more i use it.
I have copied around 100 cds and havent had any trouble with it so far, the write speed is currently the fastest you can get, for this price its a real snap.
ohhhh and one last thing, it has a real groovy red light that comes on as it records. (Im easily pleased arent I!)
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Pioneer DVD 106S
by neepheid
I had a horrible run of luck with a Toshiba DVD-ROM drive (see my dabs.com story for the gruesome details), so I got this one. I thought the slot drive looked really cool and had heard good things about this drive. Everything was true. The speed is excellent, the slot takeup of discs is just right - not so slow that you feel ... like you're shoving it in, but not so fast that it gobbles the disc out of your hand like a sugar cube deficient donkey. It has been 100% reliable so far and performs good digital audio extraction (a must for listening to CDs properly and for ripping to MP3).
If I had to make a complaint, it's all too easy to leave a disc in the drive and shut down your computer. As there is no emergency eject (too complicated to implement I suppose) you have to power up the machine to eject your disc. I'm sure you get Windows programs that will eject the drive at shutdown. I've always meant to look into that.
Of course, being a slot drive, you can't use small (8cm) or odd shaped discs (like those business card shaped ones) - but it's a small price to pay.
All in all, unless you have to have a tray for odd shaped discs, this is the one to go for.
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