Why I buy this one ?
- Write Speeds - up to 52x CD-R & 32x CD-RW
- Read Speeds - up to 16x DVD-ROM & 52x CD-ROM
- Interchangeable Front Bezels - Choose from Beige or Black to perfectly match the color of your PC!

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What our customer's say!

"Very Good Drive. I Bought 2!", Great Sony quality. This drive is easy to install and flexible to use. I have already purchased two of them and will likely buy one more very soon to replace a factory-installed CD drive in my Gateway PC.

"Good replacement for the broken Samsung that came with my Dell", The Samsung that came with my Dell started giving me trouble about a year after I bought the PC. After less than 3 years it stopped working entirely. This Sony installed easily and so far works fine (I've only had it for a month). My only gripe is that the write up said it came with both a black face and a beige face, but mine only has a beige face (and my Dell is black). This cosmetic issue doesn't really bother me, but I can't give it 5 stars for this.

"Great shipping great product", I bought this and obviously from my title it came pretty fast and it works great, easy installation did it on my own so you probably can too.

"Decent, not best error-tolerance", I've had a DVD drive for 8 years, and it has been having difficulty reading some minor-scratched DVDs, which include some newly purchased ones. So that bothered me a lot. This SONY drive takes care "some" of that problem for me. I am able to play almost all of those minor-scratched DVDs now, excepting only a couple. The actual DVD players that cannot be hooked to a computer can play those scratched DVDs OK, probably because those have a lot higher error tolerance...

Reading speed was great, setup was simply plug-and-play. No software needed unless you want to burn CDs.

"Excellent CDR/W and DVD Drive", If you dont want a DVD burner, this is the drive to get. Good software, easy install and changing enclosed black faceplate a snap. writes and reads CDs and reads DVDs. Amazon has best price on the web (retail version)

Read this reviews before You buy...

"Interesting Features", The most important feature that potential buyers ought to pay attention to is that the default speed is ONLY 40x. Each and every time you want 52x, you have to hold the eject button for 5 seconds. At first, this may sound like a real inconvenient pain.

Sony says this on their Product Information sheet: "On rare occasions, some discs may not be able to tolerate 52x speed, causing them to break. We recommend that you do not use deeply scratched, brittle, or other discs that may break at 52x speed."

As someone who has had an irreplaceable treasured disc shatter in a 52x CD drive, I greatly appreciate Sony setting up the drive speed in this manner.

Another surprising feature is that even though the Amazon product page shows this drive with an ivory faceplate, a black faceplate change-out kit is included. Never before have I seen a manufacturer do this for their customers.

The instructions and all other included documents are written in 12 languages.

"No driver update by Sony for this product", I bought this dvd burner August 2007 from Amazon on the basis of these reviews. The burner worked fine, but then it stopped being able to work with any programs to burn disks. It will play media fine, but no longer record. It may be the device itself, but it also could be the software driver. When I went to download an updated driver, I found others online had the same problem with this Sony dvd burner that I did. And I found like they did, that Sony did not support the product with updated software drivers.

What I am saying is, before you buy a dvd player/burner make sure that the company supports their product by providing software drivers for it. I am looking for a new burner, and the next one I buy will be from a company that supports their products.

"Easy to install!", Besides working just great, this was easy to install. I know little about hardware and I was nervous opening the tower but I did it and had no problems.

"Another home run for Sony", I have several Sony products. Flat screen TV, VCR and so on. When shopping for a CD burner/dvd rom, as soon as I saw the name Sony I was half way sold. To me, Sony products are, and have allways been, quality. I have never regretted buying a Sony, what ever it is.

"Excellent replacement drive", Replaced my old drive which had died with this drive. Easy to install. Works great. Very reasonable price.