Back In Stock -> Lite-On 24x CD-RW drive $80 at newegg!

[Loricariidae]

Storagereview.com's article on the Lite-On 24x convinced me:
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[dsneidert]

Picpop, what are you going to put with the 32X? Somewhere I read you have to have at least double the writer speed for a reader? It seems these will be useless unless somebody comes out with a faster CDROM.

 

[SirDrak0]

Geez... I wish I didn't check this board today! I have spent way too much money in the past couple of weeks... O well... what's another $85

Thanks for the heads up! hehe...

-SirDrak0

 

[scm518]

thanks showoff - i got on this deal!

 

[WHipLAsh13]

When the 32X drives do come out they will be like 150 or so. $150 doesn't seem worth the 10 seconds at best you will save by not getting the 24X Liteon.

 

[Siberian dude]

Dont't forget an important feature of this Lite-On 24102B drive: it supports "Correct EFM encoding of regular bit patterns", which is required to back-up SafeDisc2 protected disks. Not many drives supports it!
I've just got 24102B from Next Hardware Shop and I'm quite happy with it. It replaced a two-year old 8x Plaextor, which I was quite happy with too, but which doesn't support the EFM Encoding thing.