I have read that the lite-on dvd writers are unreliable as cd error scanners but how unreliable are they ?? is it worth me getting a lite-on SOHR 5238S just for the purpose of a cd scanner ?? i dont mind speeding the money.
I have a lite-on SHW 16H5S at the moment which i use for dvd scanning and cd burning.
Seeing is believing, so here are some scans of exactly the same CD.
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[li]Disc Quality scan performed with LiteOn SHW-1635S DVD burner.[/li][li]Disc Quality scan performed with BenQ DW1655 drive.[/li][li]Disc Quality scan performed with NEC ND-4551A drive.[/li][li]PxScan performed with Plextor PX-712 drive.[/li][/ol]Now you tell me, how much you would trust LiteOn DVD burners for CD quality scanning! 
Hi,
Dragemester had exactly the same idea as me 
Drives used here:
Liteon SOHR-5239V (CD/RW drive) @Promise IDE
Sony DW-G120A (same as Liteon 165P6S) @USB
Benq DW 1650 @ VIA IDE
(I can also provide scans taken with Samsung SHW-163A)
Disc #1 - degraded Tevion branded Prodisc
Interestingly, the Sony does not increase read speed beyond 8x with that disc
So, what drive do you want to trust? It seems, as if the Liteon CD/RW delivers similar results as the Benq.
But from you sig I see, that you own a Plex - can you use that drive together with Plextools?
Michael
From Jedi Master Yoda’s signature, it appears that he has a PlexWriter 24/10/40A CD-RW drive.
That drive is a generation younger than my PlexWriter 16/10/40A which cannot perform C1/C2 scans in PlexTools, but I’m guessing that C1/C2 scanning is only supported on much newer drives, such as the PX-7xx and Plextor Premium series.
Na tried the plexwriter 24/10/40 but it does’nt do the scanning tryed with cd/dvd speed some time back. Was hopeing to see the plex primium 2 come out here in the uk but that could be some time, so i was thinking of grabing a Lite-On SOHR 5238S cd writer for error scanning which looks like thats what i might do as i have some old cd-rs i want to check and ether using it or my 16H5S for cd burning.
From those scans seems a lite-on cdwriter does well, from drages scans i can see that a lite-on dvd writer is way off.
