StorageReview has posted a review on the Pioneer DVD-115.
In our recently published DVD-ROM comparison between Toshiba´s SD-M1212 and Pioneer´s DVD-303S, we covered many of the issues that are questioned when buyers seek to purchase a DVD-ROM drive for their computer. To summarize, DVD-ROM drives today are most commonly used as CD-ROM drives and DVD-Video players. DVD-Videos play back at only 1X speeds, so the extra speeds offered by drives such as Pioneer´s 16X are only realized if you spend a lot of time searching and scanning in your movies. The added speed also helps in computer software applications on DVD-ROM, but at present the titles are quite few and far between.Read more
So, in examining Pioneer´s new 16X ATAPI DVD-ROM drive, much of our focus will be on its CD-ROM performance. Presently, though, we have no other 40X ATAPI drives with which to compare, so for this article we chose to include two 48X ATAPI and two 40X SCSI drives from our database. This will give an idea of where the DVD-115 falls in terms of its CD-ROM performance.
