LOL.... after doing some massive research on this subject, I cansay the Asus are pretty damn good... if the term 'SD2 Killer' means anything to you, you'd be happy too : ) . It has great DAE, and soon it can be upgraded to a true Asus drive [so the Asus firmware updates will work] so you can get firmware 1.35 and have fun with it....
The Asus has the fastest read speeds, faster than the LiteOn, and although it is noisy, it will get the job done. <Begin technical stuff> For those who the following makes sense to, don't force a MtkFlash or WinMtkFlash yet to a regular Asus firmware, if it is telling you it is unrecognized memory. Even though the .bins for the Asus firmwares are readily available. Half the Cendyne Asus rebadges are MtkFlash compatible [check by mtkflash ? C] and the other half aren't... so those with the MtkFlash friendly version can get a true Asus 1.35 or whatever right now, and the rest have to wait a little while. <End technical stuff>
Since Lite-Ons seem so hard to come by, I'm happy with my lot.
CheetahMk2