SONY 18X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 18X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 12X DVD-RAM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2MB Cache E-IDE/ATAPI DVD Burner with LightScribe

Pros: Very fast. I have burned many DVD's and CD's with no coasters. LightScribe is very very cool and gives my Digital Animation projects a real proffesional look.

Cons: Not SATA. They need more SATA drives !!!!!!!!

Overall Review: A bit pricey and still am not sure if the lightScribe is going to wear this drive out faster than normal but it is so cool!!!!!

Pros: This CD/DVD burner is fast and quiet. Can't speak to longevity, but build quality of this drive is excellent. The tray opens fast compared with other drives as well. I chose the 835 over the 830 because I wanted LightScribe. Comes with Nero 7 Essentials software.

Cons: Expensive, but you have to pay for features and performance.

Overall Review: Swapping out the faceplate was a simple process. The black faceplate is rather plain looking compared to the fancy white one.

Pros: I haven't quite tested this out as far as burning is concerned, but so far it's been quite reliable. Plus it's got beige and black colored faceplates that you can interchange, which really drew me to it, since I have a black case.

Cons: None that I can think of. The disk tray sometimes takes a while to open up, so that may be an issue if you're impatient.

Overall Review: Antec Nine Hundred Case, Rosewill RX850-D-B 850W PSU, MSI P6N Diamond Motherboard, Rosewill RCX-Z2 Ball Bearing CPU Cooler, Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6800 Processor, HITACHI Deskstar T7K500 Harddrive x2, Patriot 2GB 240-Pin DDR2 RAM x2, Rosewill Blue L.E.D. 120mm Case Fan, EVGA GeForce 8800GTX Graphics Card x2 (in SLI), SONY DRU-835A CD/DVD Burner with Lightscribe, Windows XP Professional (32-bit). I have written more thorough reviews on the rest of my hardware in this list, if you're interested in any of the parts.

Pros: It works well, when it works. But it is not consistent, therefore this is not really a pro.

Cons: Gives disc errors (creates coasters) at advertised speeds. I had it installed in a dual core system with 2 gigs of RAM and it wouldn't burn a DVD at 16 x. I tried 12x, and it worked once. I installed it, just to see what would happen, in an older, slower Dell Precision 220, and it gave disc error messages at 12x and totally froze the computer at 16x. It seems to work ok at 8x on that computer. So much for buffer underrun technology.

Overall Review: The Lightscribe is kind of a joke. The first disc I tried to use a Fancy Font in Nero, and it was so faint, I could barely see it. I went to the Lightscribe website and downloaded their latest software, and a program that makes "simple" labels fast. It worked. I use a small bold font and it will print a simple title in under 2 minutes. No choice in design, but it does work, and it's much faster than Nero. That's about all I want to do anyway. I'm using HP Lightscribe discs by the way, which don't look so hot. They're kind of a mustard yellow. Yuk.

Pros: Great burner. Has done everything flawlessly, ,, IF, , and that is IF, , you use decent media. Just like any other burner, cheap media make expensive coasters, like other reviewers have learned (or not). LS does come out faint on lower quality settings, it's the typical speed/quality payoff like any other LS burner.

Cons: A little spendy, , but not much really. .

Overall Review: Some software doesn't like the DL capability. Time will fix that. .

Pros: I've owned this burner for over 2 years now, and it has been very good to me. great burns on verbatim dvd+-r and dvd+-dl. it rips almost every dvd i've placed into it, and it also rips faster than two of my SATA drives plugged into brand new 2.3 dual core 64 bit processors!

Cons: The drive sticks sometime when ejecting, caused by the band connecting the motor to the eject mechanism not being strong enough to break the bond in the magnets between the dvd spinning motor and the magnet on the top of the case keeping it from going crazy when spinning up.

Overall Review: excellent drive, looking for a SATA model....

Pros: Optional face plate, burns at stable speeds. It's Sony.

Cons: Stopped working after a little more than 15 months. Computer either recognizes it as another drive or when it burns it fails. Don't buy this drive if u plan to use it more than a year.

Overall Review: Wish i would have bought another drive. Sony is good, first Sony drive that failed on me.

Pros: Very nice burner looks neat it comes with nero essenitals but if you have windows vista make sure you have another computer with windows xp then put nero cd inside and copy the serial number when you start your installation because on windows vista you wont be able to install it and you will need to download nero from nero support @ sony

Cons: 10x :)

Overall Review: 10x :)