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| Review: | Mitsumi CR-4809TE 24/12/40X |
| vs. | |
| Lite-On LTR-24102B 24/10/40X | |
| Reviewer: | OC-Freak |
| Provided by: | LiteON & Mitsumi |
In this review we’ll directly compare two nearly identical featured drives.
Both Mitsumi and Lite-On are two very large manufacturers. While Lite-On being the largest producer of them it’s a very new brand on the retail market. Mitsumi has been around for quite some years now and should have some more experience. Let’s see how good these drives are compared to each other.
The drives:The drive we received from Mitsumi was not the retail version, what we got was:
- The drive itself, Mitsumi was kind enough to update the firmware to version 1.0C before they shipped it.
- 1 empty verbatim 24X certified 80minutes CD-R disc (Made by Mitsubishi chemicals)
- 1 empty verbatim 10X certified 74minutes CD-RW disc (Made by Mitsubishi chemicals)
- 1 disc containing Nero 5.5 OEM and some other software
This is what Mitsumi shipped to us.
The sticker on the mitsumi drive
The package of the Liteon contained:
- The drive we will use is upgraded to the latest firmware, version 5S57.
- One empty ‘multispeed” 80 minutes CD-R disc (Made by ritek).
- One empty 10X certified 74 minutes CD-RW disc (Made by Plasmon data systems).
- A simple installation guide on various languages.
- One audio cable
- 4 screws
- One CD containing Nero Burning ROM version 5.5
The Lite-On box
What the box contained.
4 Comments
Excellent review! I personally own a mitsumi 4809, and although i do love lite-ons for their excellent EFM burning(i still have my lite-on 12x), the lite-ons in my opinion are not as solidly build as the mitsumi's. One thing i'd like to note is that significantly better burning times were noted when using NTI's cd software. NTI's clock stops right as the drive stops burning(avg of 3:50 burn time for 700 megs), while nero keeps counting all the way until the cd ejects. Maybe some day you can try using NTI's software in your testing. Btw, you guys have the best overall analysis of cd drives on the web... just my 2 cents....
Just one question: why don't you try to read also BAD discs, I mean discs with scratch, dirt and so on... I bought two weeks ago a nice Samsung SW-224. It seams that every horrible disc that I have (audio, CDR and also CDRW) is read as never before! Much better than the burners I tried before: LG 16x, Teac 16x, Artec 24x. THANK YOU AND CONGRATULATION FOR THIS SITE!
Hey, it's my first review.... 
I'll see if I could include scratched media tests in my next review, to bad I don't have much scratched discs....:4
I'll see if I could include scratched media tests in my next review, to bad I don't have much scratched discs....:4 
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- Posted on: 06 Aug 07 20:35
MI COMPUTADORA NO RECONOCE LA LECTORA POR QUE NO TENGO EL O LOS CONTROLADORES DE LA LECTORA, COMO HAGO?????? :c