CDR-Info has posted a review on the SONY CRX175A IDE CD-RW
This is the Sony's turn to present a ambitious proposal for optical recording at 24x. The new drive is the Sony CRX175A. As it is well known, the competition level is very high and is established by TEAC, Yamaha, Plextor, Sanyo, Liteon and many other manufacturers. To obtain the performance required, Sony uses the 24x-16x Z-CLV writing technology, 40x max CAV for reading and 2MB buffer memory, among with the PowerBurn anti-coaster technology. We will try to examine the drive's capabilities in writing and reading tasks and of course the quality of the given performance.Read more