Pros: CDRFreaks tested this drive and gave it an excellent rating. Improved burn & scan quality over my 422-08. This drive will read dvd's that my 422-08 won't. Bad drive or just better capabilities, not sure. Burned 2 dozen discs and no coasters so far.

Cons: Tray is belt driven.

Overall Review: The selling point here was a previous review. The buyer opened his up and found that the T98A did indeed have a MediaTek chip, unlike the 124, 224, 324, 424's. Some of those apparently have NEC chips "Sony". I'm glad I held out for the 524.

Pros: Drive burns at consistent speeds. Discs are reliable if not burned with labeltag. Decent price.

Cons: Labeltag feature is nearly worthless. When it works, it's great. So far however, the drive will frequently error out after it burns the data compilation and proceeds to burn the labeltag. Symptoms are the drive flashing green and nero express stuck at 2-3% complete for labeltag. Requires rebooting computer to resolve. Labeltag is only supported in the nero 9 essentials. Following the "upgrade" link in the nero application to get the latest 10.x version will completely remove the labeltag feature in nero. Labeltag can be done independently using the Liteon Firmware update utility available on their site (its combined in the same package) Labeltag can not be added to ISOs, only multisession discs that are "open". Labeltag closes the disc. The drive is exceedingly lightweight compared to my previous DVD burner, easily 1/3 the weight. This alone gave me a "cheap" feeling for the drive. The drive has an awkward startup sound, and may surprise you the first few times.

Overall Review: Labeltag burning will almost always fail if the sata drive is configured on a sata port running in RAID or AHCI. To resolve this, set the specific port to IDE mode. In IDE mode I've had 4 out of 11 discs fail when using labeltag, as opposed to a 100% failure rate. Overall, I like the results of the labeltag when it works, but the reliability of it working is horrendous. At present, I would not buy this same drive again - mabey the ihas624 (labeltag + lightscribe) when it becomes available... Performance reviews of the drive were good overall for the reviews I found.

Pros: Burns CD-Rs that can be read by Teac CD Player. My old drives were unable to do this.

Cons: None

Overall Review: It shows as "ATAPI iHAS524 B AL28" in ImgBurn rather than the A model which is older.

Pros: High quality high speed burns with Taiyo-Yuden 16x +R media. Very good burns at 24x, outstanding burns at 20x. Excellent burns at rated speed with Verbatim dual-layer +R media at 8x speed (which is the speed that the discs are rated for)

Cons: None so far.

Overall Review: This drive works great, burning the media that I was already using, at a higher speed than my previous drive. I don't use, nor do I plan to use Labeltag. So, I can't comment on it.

Pros: It works great with Ubuntu Linux 11.10 and 11.04 64bit versions.

Cons: None

Pros: Good fast and quiet DVD Burner, having LabelTag is nice for when you're giving someone a disk that's not entirely full. (To make room for the label) It looks nice too.

Cons: Nothing at all.

Overall Review: Installed and works perfect on Windows 7 Ultimate 64Bit.

Pros: Reliable brand which I have used multiple times.

Cons: None.

Overall Review: It's a DVD Burner / Reader that is reliable, cheap and does the job.

Pros: Easy to Install Fast Easy to update firmware

Cons: None.

Overall Review: Much more responsive than an older IDE lite-on drive I had. Comes with easy to install software which can update the firmware in a snap.