i have owned a few lite-on drives 24x, 52x and a 4x dvd+r, and after extensive research, mainly from cdfreaks.com, i have found that the liteon perform equally if not better than plextors at a much lower cost. newegg.com has 52x burners for $40 and the dvd burner i bought is down to $99. i have burnt tons of cds on these and never have a problem.