detail information

Positive:

• Supports 16x reading/writing through the USB2.0 interface
• Supports DVD±R/+R DL writing at 16x/8x
• Supports DVD+RW/DVD-RW writing at 8x/6x
• Supports CD-R writing at 48x
• Supports Bitsetting on DVD+R/+RW/+R DL (BookType to DVD-ROM)
• Reads CD-ROM/CD-R/CD-DA at 48x
• Reads DVD±R/+RW/DVD-Video SL at 16x/12x/16x
• Can read 99 min CD-Rs
• Good error testing capabilities
• Good community support and many 3^rd party programs that works with the drive
• Very good retail package
• Nice design
• Interesting EZ-DUB feature

Negative:

• Does not support Mt. Rainier
• Requires 8x certified DVD+R DL media to write at 8x
• Supports CD-RW writing only at 24x
• Reads DVD±R DL/DVD-Video DL only at 8x
• Reads CD-RW only at 32x
• No OFF button/switch to physical turn the drive off
• Green LED for both reading and writing

Conclusion:

As this drive is based on the internal version of Lite-On SHW-1635S, we did not include to many performance tests in this Lite-On EZ-DUB SHW-1635SU mini-review, as we have concentrated more on the EZ-DUB feature.

However, for those who are interested in a more detailed review, we would recommend you to read the Lite-On SHW-1635S review we did back in 2005. (It can be found here.)

To sum it all up, this is what we would say:

"This is an interesting drive exhibiting good overall performance characteristics. With the addition of the EZ-DUB feature, even a novice should be able to quickly duplicate a CD or DVD. We found that creating custom made archival discs by using the 'FILE" button, was convenient and intuitive as well, due to the EZ-DUB software interface. EZ-DUB manages to strike a pretty good balance too, as it can probably satisfy many of the needs of even advanced users."

By using our price grabber feature cdfreaks.pricegrabber we did not find any offers, but we found the drive at getprice and it is listed at 98 €. (January 2006).

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Thanks to: 

Ricoh Europe BV - Germany for providing the media used is this article.

Verbatim (Germany & UK) - for providing the media used in this article.