Sony Optiarc 20X DVD±R DVD Burner with LightScribe 20X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 20X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM Black PATA Model AD-7191A LightScribe Support - OEM

Pros: 20X DVD burning, DVD-RAM 12X and Lightscribe, affordable. This is Ultra DMA mode 4 drive, it supports transfers up to 66MB/sec.

Cons: None.

Overall Review: This is 2 sheep drive and it will burn SD 2.51 discs with no problem. SD 3 and higher is not currently supported by any burner. 16X DL burning would be nice but at this moment there is no media. The same goes for 12X DVD-RAM that is not available anywhere. I bought one Panasonic dual 5X DVD-RAM 9.4GB disc and everything went smooth. DVD-RAM rewritable discs are of much better quality than regular rewritable media. You can rewrite up to 100,000 times DVD-RAM disc but only 1,000 times regular RW. I also tried Verbatim 16X DVD+R, TDK 48X CD-R and Verbatim 8x DVD+RW. No problems with this burner and Nero 8 software.

Pros: Inexpensive, reads disks fine

Cons: Very difficult to find firmware for this drive. Sony does not support these drives anymore as they have been sold to Optiarc. Did not install correctly the first or second time it was put into the tower. Came up with errors on the plug and play install. I have had more disks not burn properly with this drive than any other one I have owned. I ordered a Pioneer drive to replace this one as it is NOT reliable enough. I have had a fail rate of about 1 out of 15 DVDs burned using this drive.

Pros: I had no problems at all with this drive. It offers very high read and write speeds.

Cons: It is loud.

Pros: Cheap, burns everything I tried, no coasters

Cons: Flimsy disk tray. Wont read many disks that I've tried. The ide port on the back is crooked.

Overall Review: So far it has burned everything that I have thrown at it, but it's only been able to read less then have of the disks that I have tried to copy. The drive tray is flimsy, and the ide port on the back is crooked. It took a little bit of twisting to get the ide ribbon to fit into the port on the drive. Thankfully I didnt bend any pins.....

Pros: Extremely fast, quiet, and cheap.

Cons: The drivers are very hard to find (I still have yet to get them after hours of forum hopping) but they only effect the lightscribe feature as far as I know.

Overall Review: My older drive used to take up to 30 minutes to write 4GB to a dvd. This drive has yet to take more than 10 minutes to do the same. Quietness is not compensated for speed.

Pros: A fantastic price of 30$, if your looking for a good burner, this is the way to go.

Cons: Noise is VERY loud, but im only using for burning dvds so thats fine

Overall Review: If you are looking for a dvd drive so you can watch movies, this isnt the drive for you. It makes a alot of noise when the disk is in the tray so it would be hard to watch the movie and hear this loud sound. But what a fantastic price, burns flawlessy, if your looking for a cheap burner get this

Pros: I bought it from NEWEGG and it arrived quickly and was priced right. It does burn TDK DVDs.

Cons: This will not burn MEMOREX DVDs at any speed even 4x. My old NEC burner will burn them flawlessly.

Pros: Fast shipping, easy install, fast drive

Cons: OEM, so all you get is the drive itself and some bubblewrap. no cables, manuals, or software. The drivers werent a problem, but I had to go and manually find the lightscribe software and downlaod it.

Overall Review: Good drive, noise doesnt bother me, as its faint. its worth the money.