Pros: Thought this drive would be good with my new desktop computer. I edit videos, surf the web, do word processing etc. and my wife and I also watch many movies using the computer drive as dvd player. I could not find enough reviews on this model so I took a chance and ordered anyway

Cons: For our purposes it was not exceptable. Much too noisey! when playing a cd or dvd. Thought it would be quiet as I have other sony drives that are extremely quiet but they are eide and I needed sata. I returned the drive to Newegg immediately.

Pros: I didn't get around to enjoying any Positive aspects of this drive.

Cons: I had horrible luck with this drive. It would be inconsistently available when trying to install my operating system, causing me to re-start the process several times. Once I did have WindowsXP installed, the drive would fail to auto-play correctly, often ending up removed from my system as a visible drive. I would insert a game disk to install, the install might start, or the drive would spin then go silent. If the install did not appear running, I would check "My Computer" and not see the drive anymore. Horrible.

Overall Review: To get past the problem, I removed this drive and plugged in an old IDE dvd-rom drive I had laying around and everything worked great. The machine (which I built) has three other SATA drives, all of which worked perfectly. I even rotated SATA connections, and still had very inconsistent performance out of this drive.

Pros: Worked fine straight out of the box. Seems to burn discs nice and fast.

Cons: Come on New Egg... do I really have to put something here to submit a review? The only con about this drive is having to write something in this section of the review. *sigh*

Overall Review: Newegg is great! Great service so far!

Pros: It performs the task as expected.

Cons: Since it is an OEM drive the user has to have the own burning software.

Pros: You can easily get RPC1 firmware. Search the web for it yourself because my review gets rejected when I mention Liggy's and Dee's site.

Cons: Wasn't hand delivered by Nicole Kidman

Pros: Its a DVD burner and it does lightscribe

Cons: Doesn't recognize Verbatim media maximum burning speed ratings and quality of dual layer burns is not good.

Overall Review: Bought this to replace one of my two Asus 2014L1Ts. I also bought a Pioneer 215dbk. The Asus burners were really poor at dl burns. The Pioneer is a real gem. The dual layer burns I have done are all perfect. The pioneer doesn't have lightscribe so I got this Optiarc as well. The Optiarc only recognizes Verbatim 6x media as 4x and at 4x even, the results are unreliable. Using Verbatim 8x media, the Optiarc recognizes the media as 8x but 6x burns are coasters. This was not the burner I hoped it would be for sure. I use it for lightscribe burns only now.

Pros: Runs and works fine.

Cons: This thing does get load.