LITE-ON 24X DVD Writer 24X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 12X DVD+R DL 24X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM Black SATA Model iHAS424-98 LightScribe Support

Pros: Not too noisy, hasn't failed a burn yet, works out of the box. Lite-On is a brand that makes quality disk drives for a very respectable price.

Cons: None

Pros: Its quit and it works.

Cons: None

Pros: eh!

Cons: Same as other posters. Not even a year and it's already dead. Didn't get much use either. Every single time I try LITE-ON. Loved my TEAC, PLEXTOR, and NEC drives. Going back to quality.

Pros: This is a great drive. Sure its a re-branded optiarc but that's not necessarily a bad thing. It comes in a retail package which means you get a sata cable and screws to install it.

Cons: its not a true lite-on Mediatek chipset. So if you want this drive for jitter scanning you might want to try and find the ihas424-08 which is the mediatek chip.

Overall Review: The NEC chipset this drive has is almost always rated better for burning DVDs than the mediatek. Seeing as I purchased this drive to burn DVDs mainly not CDRs or to do scanning this was the preferred option.

Pros: Fast and pretty quiet. Bought to burn some dvd sets and it has sliced through 24 discs like nothing... the burner is extremely quick, the lightscribe is what slows the process. 20 minutes per cover but they look gorgeous. First time user of lightscribe and another users review made me worry saying they looked faint almost like holograms. This is far from the truth. The discs I am copying are for a workout system and almost mimic the black and white labels perfectly. This drive is quality.

Cons: none so far

Overall Review: A few reviews said the lightscribe was faint, not true. Some said it sounded like a jet engine at startup... my dvd drive doesnt rev up at startup so I have no experience with that but even when burning at 20x its not loud in comparison to any other drive I owned. The only reason I would shy away from this drive is because its on the verge of being old tech... bluray burners are getting cheap and dvd's will eventually fade away but for what I needed this will work for the next few years atleast.

Pros: Cheap, good fast burner with lightscribe support. No problems. Easy installation as expected.

Cons: A little loud during spinup but quiets quickly. The loudest component in my build

Overall Review: Antec 300 Illusion Win 7 x64 Pro Gigabyte GA-MA790GPT-UD3H AMD Phenom II X4 955 Mushkin Blackline (2x2GB) DDR3 996652B XFX Geforce 6800 GS Lite-On 24X CD/DVD Burner iHAS424-98

Pros: I bought 5 of these for use in a DVD duplicator, mostly because they were pretty cheap and I needed a lightscribe capable burner. All the burners work perfectly and create pretty nice labels. Can't complain

Cons: Not much.

Overall Review: For those of you who want these for xbox 360 purposes, all 5 of the drives I ordered ended up being the "B" chipset, so they should flash to the burnermax firmware just fine. I personally cross flashed all of mine to the Plextor firmware since I've heard they have superior write strategies

Pros: Fast seek times, sleek design, lightscribe support and a powerful reader that sees past light-medium scratches on a disc.

Cons: Doesn't spool up like a turbocharger but it does seek pretty loudly, not much of a con but my last lite-on drive was much quieter.

Overall Review: Retail version comes with everything you need although it's a bit pricier, if you already have SATA cables and don't care about Nero than I would go with the OEM version and save some cash.