ASUS DVD-E608
Like its sibling, the ASUS 8x DVD drive posted rock-solid performance with high data transfer rates and very low CPU utilisation. Here too, support for Ultra DMA/33 enabled high performance. Instructions for enabling this feature were properly described in the installation manual. Surprisingly, there was no software bundled with this drive-not even DVD playback software.
There were no specifications in the manual but there is a listing of the specifications on the packaging box. The overall build quality of the drive is very good and the drive tray is quite firm. The DVD playback quality was very sharp and the video stream looked very smooth with no skipping of frames. With very good performance, this drive is ideally suited to home entertainment applications.