Lite-On, Inc. LTR-24102B

"The drive does everything a person can wish at a very attractive price Shortly... If you want a cheap solution for a Plextor drive you can have a look at LiteON!"

"LiteOn's attempt at the 24x writing speed is much more than satisfactory. The LTR-24102B seems to be the faster recorder, for now, and managed to outperform both Sanyo and TDK 24x drives in many reading/writing tests. The drive's overall performance was very good and -for sure- users will enjoy both 20x and 24x writing speeds."

"Where Lite-On's new 24x drive did very well in some of the tests, it didn't do so well in some of the others. Probably the biggest shock for me was that the drive could only read CD-RW media at 16x CLV. While 40x CD-RW reading speeds would have been ideal, I would have even welcomed a maximum speed of 32x on this drive."

"The Lite-on 24x isn't the fastest CD burner out, but it has to be one of the best burner for the money! It's fast and packs all the latest features for a great price. The price isn't an issue with this burner so if you're not looking for name brand only, it doesn't really make any sense to pass it up."

"Our first test was using Erik Deppe's CD Speed 99 to test the reading speed of the drive, and calculate the seek times in reading various types of CDs. We tested the drive with three different medias. The first was a pressed data CD (ZDNet CD Winbench 99), the second was an Audio CD (Bobby McFerrin's Hush) and the last was a LiteOn HS 10x CD-RW (Copy of CD Winbench 99)."