Audio Capturing

This drive hardly suits for processing audio data. First, many popular sound-processing programs, including EAC, do not support this drive. And second, the results of the Advanced DAE Test suggest that this drive is just not designed for such tasks.

The rather big offset is not compensated with reading from the auxiliary areas of the disc, so the user is unlikely to get a precise copy of an Audio CD. The maximum “on the fly” grabbing speed is limited at 4x which is another disadvantage of the reviewed device.

On the other hand, we must again make allowances for the class the drive belongs to. It is simply intended for other applications. Users who want an all-purpose optical drive are still limited with internal devices with the IDE interface.