With
burring and media devices the best and most practical way for our team
to see how well it performs is to burn a bunch of stuff and see how many
coasters are made and just how fast the burn process takes.. What
we found out was just about as expected.. When burning 20 DVD-R at rated
speeds we averaged one out of 20 do be defective. When burning CD-R's it
took 36 CD's to make a bad CD.. What does that mean well if you are an
occasional media backup / CD burning person then you probably wont care
at all and this burner will perform well, But if you plan on brining 30
or 40 DVD's a week then this might factor into your cost . For people
that burn allot I definitely would recommend a high end but for the
average Joe AOpen has made just the product for you... I was going to
get into all the rates and stats but until I get my hands on another
comparable product the rates wouldn't tell you much more then what I
explained..