Product Description

20X Internal SATA DVD Dual RW Super All-Write+Lightscribe Retail,

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4795 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Lite-On
• Model: LH20A1L06
• Dimensions: 3.90" h x 9.10" w x 8.40" l, 2.75 pounds

Features

• SMART-BURN
• SMART-X
• ABS system reduce vibration and noise during recording and reading

Customer Reviews

noisy performer
granted - this thing is noisy.
but - it gets the job done fast

also a very reliable reader - managed to copy some of the old CDs that my previous drives (including one in a brand new lenovo laptop) could not read... this thing just zoomed for a few more minutes than usual and managed to get the data

Do yourself a favor and avoid this item
BACKGROUND:

I was building a server that exclusively featured 15K rpm SAS and SCSI-320 drives. I thought that I would take the next step and avoid a PATA DVDrom drive.

EXPECTATION:

I desired a SATA DVDrom drive so that I would not have any jumpers to set or PATA cables to clutter my computer chassis. I was not concerned about SATA I or II speeds. I surmised that the drive would be used perhaps four times a year.

REALIZATION:

Amazon delivered this item to me and it looked great. I was assigned to another "hot" project and then another department. The end result was that I purchased the drive in April 2008 and it set in its retail box until the middle of October 2008. I was building another workstation and I needed to install the OS. I attached a new SATA cable and one of the SATA power leads from the new PSU. The system would not boot although it had previously run the past 24 hours. I disconnected the power cable from the drive and the computer powered on. No way! This item was DOA, but I had not had the opportunity to test it for six months and now I was stuck with it. It does have a 12 month warranty so all is not lost. This is the first time that I have received a DOA DVD/CDrom.

CONCLUSION:

I thought that my case were an anomoly, but a quick google search revealed that this drive has very poor reliablity. I recommend that you avoid it.

Very Pleased with the drive
I have had this drive for about 6 months now and I use it entirely too much. I am not going to put a technical review of death up here. I cannot match the lovely one that has already been done by Wayne Beckham (who is wrong about having to use Nero to use the lightscribe feature)

I have burned through about 4 50 disk spindles so far. I am the family dork, so I get to help people transfer their weddings, birthdays (no births, because, uh, NO) and almost everything else. Each disk has been a lightscribe disk. I do not use the included software for the lightscribe labeling (I use SureThing, if you are interested). I would agree with many that even on Best it is not dark enough. If the disk is for me, I run it through a second burn on draft to darken it up. The images are not a professional label quality, this is not a professional labeling device. It is, however, a very nice looking monochrome and PERMANENT label.

I will give the rest of us "Geek of the Family" out there a word of warning. You might end up burning a lot of stuff for family members because of the ability to make a non-peelable label that looks pretty nifty.