I'm not sure what the "problem" is with the Acer drive? The only review I can find is for the 20x Acer writer. So far the Acer drive I received has worked flawlessly. Granted any new cd-rw drive is a big step up from my 2x2x6 that I've been using for what seems like eons now.
I mainly burn with rw discs, but I thought I would test the speed of the drive (with a cd-r) to see how it stacked up against what some of you have been saying in this thread. I burned a randomly selected set of files (off the HD), which weighed in at approximately 651 MB in 4 minutes 17 seconds. As I don't have any 24x 700 MB capable media, I can't test anything larger than 650 MB. However, if you calculate using 24x speed (3,600 KB/s), which the remaining 50 MB of the disc will be burnt at, you can reasonably say it will add another 14 - 16 seconds onto the burn time. I should add, I did this operation using two seperate burn programs, Nero and Roxio's Easy CD Creator 5, and they finished within a second of each other.
This December I built a system for a friend and installed the exact same model # Lite-On drive that everyone seems to want (not a Cendyne though). I recall having very similar burn times with it, but I never tested with a set size of 650 MB, nor did I perform the same burn multiple times to test repeatability.
Take this small test for whatever it's worth, but all-in-all the Acer drive seems to be a very capable burner.
I mainly burn with rw discs, but I thought I would test the speed of the drive (with a cd-r) to see how it stacked up against what some of you have been saying in this thread. I burned a randomly selected set of files (off the HD), which weighed in at approximately 651 MB in 4 minutes 17 seconds. As I don't have any 24x 700 MB capable media, I can't test anything larger than 650 MB. However, if you calculate using 24x speed (3,600 KB/s), which the remaining 50 MB of the disc will be burnt at, you can reasonably say it will add another 14 - 16 seconds onto the burn time. I should add, I did this operation using two seperate burn programs, Nero and Roxio's Easy CD Creator 5, and they finished within a second of each other.
This December I built a system for a friend and installed the exact same model # Lite-On drive that everyone seems to want (not a Cendyne though). I recall having very similar burn times with it, but I never tested with a set size of 650 MB, nor did I perform the same burn multiple times to test repeatability.
Take this small test for whatever it's worth, but all-in-all the Acer drive seems to be a very capable burner.