Gamers Depot heeft een kleine review geschreven over de 16 speed DVD drive van AOpen. Volgens de benchmarks heeft deze drive een gemiddelde snelheid van 10x voor het lezen van DVD's en 30x voor het lezen van CD's, een prima resultaat aangezien alle drives nooit constant op maximumsnelheid draaien. De reviewer is daarom ook wel te spreken over deze drive en vindt dat als je moet upgraden geen slechte keus maakt als je de AOpen 16x DVD drive kiest 
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AOpen is one of the largest PC component manufactures around, and have more recently been hopping on the DVD bandwagon courtesy of Pioneer (Pioneer makes the DVD drives for AOPen). As DVD drives become more popular, and start to replace CD-ROM drives as the default optical storage unit in computers, the need to have them read faster is becoming ever increasing.
AOpen has answered that call with what is presumablly the fastest drive of its kind, their new 16X DVD. At this speed we're looking at the potential for data throughputs faster then some hard drives out there, and the option to ditch your CD-ROM drive forever, as this drive also boasts a 40x CD-ROM read capability.
[...] With a nice SoftDVD player, and killer speed, the AOpen 1640 DVD drive is one of the nicer ones around. Time will tell just how quickly DVD takes off for games, however we are seeing more software shipping on DVD like encyclopedias, and even some application software. Games are slowly catching on, and hopefully will come on DVD standard within a year or so.
If you're in the market to replace your current CD-ROM drive or just want a DVD drive, then this unit should be on your list. It also makes a good companion to a CDR/CDR-W drive for doing CD-CD "backups", and has a decent mp3 "ripping" speed of around 16x.
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