I've had horrid luck with lite-on dvd reading performance. constant spinup-spindown-spinup-sync problems especially with scratched (ie netflix) discs where I'd just give up and put it in my NEC DVD-RW. My Artec never has these problems. They are underrated drives. SR rates them as unbelievably high DVD Read performance, higher than anyone else. CD Read performance is another thing, but who cares about that? What's the last CD you put in your computer where reading time was critical? Maybe the 5 disc install of UT2004.