You may not have heard of Lite On before, but just because the brand isnt well known doesnt make it an inferior product to the more expensive name brand products out there.The Lite On drive is very easy to install, simply connct up the data cable, power lead and screw it into your case and its installed - nothing could be easier!
The drive is automatically recognised once you have installed it and its simply a matter of installing the bundled copy of Nero Burning Rom which lets you make music CDs, compilations, data and even Video CDS (VCD and SVCD format supported).
In action the drive is obviously incredably fast, burning discs at a phenomenal rate. Generally you will find that the thing which slows the process down is that cheaper brand disks only allow burning up to about 16x, or maybe 24x, but having the ability to go faster still is always a nice feature for when discs on the market catch up to the newest drive specs.
The drives come with "Burn Protection" which means that if your computer is struggling to get the data for the CD fast enough it can slow down and speed up as nesecarry which many older and inferior drives could not do - youd just end up with errors on your CD - but not with the Lite On!
Ive burnt dozens of different brands of discs at a variety of speeds, and not had a single error. Even audio CDs, which are the places where errors show up the most with pops and clicks on the tracks are perfect at any speed! Definately a worthwhile investment for the future, and youll never need to buy another CD Writer again!