LITE-ON 22X DVD±R DVD Burner 22X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 22X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM Black IDE Model iHAP122-04 - OEM

Pros: Good cheap drive that replaced an OLD, BUSTED CD burner in an old Dell tower. Installed without a hitch on Windows XP PRO.

Cons: None so far.

Overall Review: None

Pros: quite, great CD/CDr/DVD/DVDr read/write speeds for an IDE, works internally or externally (firewire 400/usb2.0), inexpensive, works with PC or Mac.

Cons: DVD-RAM (disc-only, not cased) support is very unreliable. it will read the initial insertion of a DVD-RAM disc and contents, but extracting content or erasing content would not work. rebooting and trying the same disc over again ended in only a flashing light-show from the drive's indicator light.

Overall Review: i never had a problem with my old old OLD Pioneer DVR108, which wasn't even advertised as being able to read DVD-RAM discs but did(no recording though) accessing the content from my TV set-top Panasonic Recorder. I was really hoping to finally be able to use all of the free DVD-RAM discs i got when i purchased my Panasonic TV Recorder, as i would rather us them for computer use than recording TV shows! (since the set-top Panny has an internal HDD for TV recording)
if you don't care or need DVD-RAM read/write, then i give it a 5-star rating, and you should buy it. if you need a drive with perfect DVD-RAM usage, don't bother with this Lite-On.