The Plextor Premium has specific features and capabilities in dealing with certain types of copy protection that are not present or available (and which are highly unlikely ever again to be present or available) in any other drive whether made by Plextor or otherwise. The recommendation by $CyBeRwIz$ is for one specific Plextor drive (i.e. the Plextor Premium, which is a cdrw not a dvdrw or a combo) and for no other.