It's the one Creative Labs is supplying with some of its 8432 kits (RW8435E, 4 meg buffer, RW8432E with 2M buffer is Plextor or Sony). I've had mine for only a few weeks, no problems, not very noisy, but I get a slight swishing sound from the plastic clamp that clamps the hole against the bearing whenever a disk is in the drive just idling.