Review on 🔥 High-Speed LaCie 301483U USB2.0 D2 DVD-RW DL with Lightscribe – Ultimate Disc Burning & Labeling Solution! by Chris Cooper

When my external Sony CD/DVD burner finally broke after five years of good use (the drawer never opened again), it was time to close it pick something new. This one (LaCie 301483U D2 Drive) seemed like the best choice. Several reviews said it would be fast, and CD "read" times are listed as 48x, which is very fast (if that were true!). I use the drive primarily to rip CDs and import music content from a CD into iTunes, and occasionally create CDs from iTunes content. I copy DVDs from time to time for my daughter's use. The point of this review is that the drive installs quickly and works well. But it reads CDs slowly, even if you install the included Roxio/Lightscribe software. I tried everything I could think of. I unplugged everything, scanned for viruses, rebooted the system, re-optimized everything for fast importing CDs into iTunes, plugged everything back in, plugged this LaCie drive directly into the laptop (rather than through my usual high-speed USB hub with power supply). , and so forth. , and so on, and it was the same slow performance (i.e. average import speed of 7x-9x in iTunes, which is SLOW. Although in one case it imported an old classic CD at 25x, and then re-imported all subsequent CDs - same settings and same session - at 7x - 9x.) I also tried to rip a new commercial CD with Nero and was surprised how slowly it read the CD. Very bad. I really hoped this would be a speed demon for my purposes. Instead, I'm sending it back to Revane.