Hardware Upgrade heeft een CD-ROM comparison in elkaar gezet waarin 3 EIDE drives (AOpen CD-948E/AUK, Asus CD-S500/A en Pioneer DR-944) vergeleken worden:
Pioneer player is far better than other two players, with an average speed of 11x; in general these aren’t high levels as other players can achieve higher extraction speed; the quality of tracks is always good.All three players are good to correct reading errors; only Asus CD-S500/A had some problems in reading the external tracks of some supports which made the speed to slow down and consequently a decrease in performance; in some cases it was necessary to eject the support and insert it again to complete the reading.
