I recall the silly PR that the drive people pushed saying that 16x was "the limit" of DVD because the discs would shatter at faster than 16x! LOL I knew that was just sales BS then.

I can't say that I'd buy this drive to burn at 22x because it doesn't support many MIDs at 22x, but I like my Panasonic based LG drives at 16x and 18x. If it can burn at 22x, it might be really good at these speeds, especially with jitter.