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I purchased the Lite On LH-20A1L in October, 2007 and it has been pretty resilient with virtually anything I threw at it - until now. After that, all bets are off. I had a similar problem with my Plextor PX-716A, which after a year, completely refused to read any kind of CD-R/RW disc. So that has to be said in recognition of all of these drives. It's wicked fast (wicked noisy too) and has a vast range of compatibility - especially with those cheap discs that more expensive burners turn into coasters. To that end, this drive only marginally outlasted a Plextor PX-716A I also bought in 2005.I went with this SATA LightScribe because my new Gigabit S3 motherboard largely featured SATA ports for drives AND because I wanted to try out the LightScribe feature for labelling my disks. Typically, DVD±RW drives will last for about a year before they start to give any kind of problem. After about a year of ownership, I did notice that the drive won't burn Verbatim DVD+R DL discs.
However, the LightScribe feature quickly became useless because of ridiculously expensive media, the poor print quality, and the inordinate time it takes to "print" an image. So don't waste your money on drives with this feature.With that said, this drive will handle almost any media you throw at it, for about a year. Oddly, the Plextor will burn Verbatim DVD+R DL discs, so I keep it around.If you're completely prepared to deal with the problems the drive will give you in about a year, then the Lite-On LH-20A1L is a great buy. If however you're worried about Double Layer disc compatibility, I'd say avoid this one.
first, this was not the model I asked for, decided to keep It since I was told that this model was better than the one they used to have. This product came with nero 9. I been through hell trying to set It up on my dell desktop, I,M STILL ON IT.
This combo drive is really fast and quite. Great for what you pay for it.
I've burned probably about a hundred DVD's on this now and they all turned out fine. For some reason the drive tray won't stay open for very long anymore though and keep closing, so I have to be quick to put in or take out a disc.In conclusion, this was well worth the money.
the item was delivered promptly. finding it on Amazon was easy. I have no feedback on how the the itme operated for the recipiant of the gift.
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