This drive is very useful if you already have a dvd burner. It uses the same mediatek chipset as the Liteon 5232K and works great for ripping dvd's and doing Kprobe scans. I get very similar Kprobe scans using this drive to using a 411S. Just make sure you upgrade to the latest >2.0 firmware. My experience is with the black bezel version which is an Artek drive, I am not sure about the beige version.