Thump,
You are correct, you can't beat a Plextor. But this drive is a Lite-on. Other posters who have gotten the Iomega from Buy.com have reported that the drive they have received is not a rebadged Plextor. Only the first batch of Iomega's were from Plextor, those sold out quickly and everywhere had them on backorder, all new Iomega 161040 are Lite-On rebadges. There was a overheating problem with the Plextors that the firmware revision took care of, however the Iomega did not support the upgrade without flashing it to make it appear as a Plextor instead of an Iomega. This was covered in previous threads.