Originally Posted by KenW

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I have ads dual USB2/ieee1394 and noticed something interesting , with my liteon 832 in it if i run it usb2 I have hard time even keeping up with 8x but if run the same case and drive with ieee1394 it does fine I have read that USB2 uses a lot of cpu overhead, maybe you problem is not so much the encloser or chipset but USB2 it self. I even went so far as buy whole new USB2 card just see if it was my hardware, but it made no difference, im pretty sure USB2, for dvd burns over 4x is not as good as ieee1394