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The Ultimate Drive?

ATM I've got a Sony DDU-1621 and an LG GCE-8320B burner.

Sony pros:
+can be flashed region free
+good reader overall, reads subchannel data
+reliable
+no audio caching
+a little inaccurate C2 (not that I'm using it but..)
+UDMA33 support (smaller CPU usage)
Cons:
-no overread
-doesn't read Key2Audio CD's
-don't know if supports DVD+R

LG pros:
+handles probably every copyprotection in burning with right software, writes with all modes, correct EFM encoding, overburns
+great for EAC, got overread into lead-in/lead-out
+reads subchannel data, got fast error skip (good for SD2)
+reliable
+pretty accurate C2
Cons:
-caching
-lacks K2A support as well
-no UDMA support

So what I'm really looking for is a new DVD drive or a burner/DVD-ROM combo. It would be great if it had the necessary overread and could cope with protections like Key2Audio etc. If the drive has most of the pros listed above that would be also cool.

The Ultimate Drive?

Reply #3 –
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LiteOn LTR-52246S this looks good, anyone got it?

Cheers,
Fairy

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The Ultimate Drive?

Reply #4 –
That Lite-on LTD165 seems like a really decent drive.
Any owners of that drive here?

1.What's its C2 like? Is there really any drive that
could be used with EAC's C2 error reporting option?

2.What about subcode reading? Does it read the full
96 bytes of subchannel data?

3.How fast is it in EAC with C2 enabled and disabled?
And what about overread?