Viper Lair has posted a review on an AOpen CD burner that burns up to 52x for CDR, 32x for CDRW and reads DVDs at 16x.

Although Just Link wasn't present, the buffer under run protection worked well. While burning files on to a CD at 52x, I defragged the folder it was copying from, and ran a virus scan on that drive. The burn times increased by about 30 seconds longer than when the PC was left alone. The burn worked just fine, save for the Teac drive being unable to read the disc.

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