Lite-On 24X SATA Internal DVD+/-RW Drive Optical Drive IHAS124-14

With its rather poetic name, **"Lite-On 24X SATA Internal DVD+/-RW Drive Optical Drive IHAS124-14,"** what the specifications do not tell you is that this drive maintains excellent performance both when burning and reading discs. Lite-On has clearly paid special attention to acoustics, making this model remarkably quiet during operation. To get the most out of its low-noise design, I recommend installing small rubber washers between the mounting screws and the chassis. This simple addition helps reduce vibration transfer and further minimizes operating noise. As a Mac user, I have no choice but to use external optical drives. I installed this unit in an OWC external enclosure, and the entire assembly process took less than three minutes. Once mounted, I simply connected the enclosure, powered it on, and the drive was ready to use. I have owned several Lite-On drives over the years and have always found them to be reliable. What sets this particular model apart is its quiet operation. Because of my work, I need to rip and archive hundreds of CDs every year before reviewing them. I previously switched to a drive from another manufacturer, attracted by its specifications, but it failed after only two years of use. Returning to the noise aspect, this drive can be exceptionally quiet whether installed inside a desktop PC or housed in an external enclosure. However, the overall acoustic performance will also depend on the quality of your computer case or enclosure, and I strongly recommend using rubber isolation washers around the mounting screws to reduce vibrations. It is still too early for me to comment on the long-term durability of this drive, but based on my previous experience with Lite-On products, I am optimistic. If anything changes over time, I will return and update this review with my findings.

UPDATED with tale of woe I burned about a half dozen CD-R with this unit, and maybe a dozen DVD for data backups. I also used it to read about 50 CD-R data backups I had burned in years past with a different burner. It started failing to read CD-R but I assumed it was a problem with the old optical media. I start experimenting with CD-ROMs and CD-DA; it won't read/write CD media at all anymore although DVD media works. I contacted the seller about an RMA. They advised me to contact Lite-On. So I contacted Lite-on, who said get the RMA from the seller. Ok. I told the seller, who asked to see Lite-On's response, which I'd already provided in the email. :-\ Then the seller asked for the serial number, which I'd already provided in email. :-( I don't like this pattern. Seller says they are in the process of procuring an RMA. Ok. I will name names if this blows up, but if they come through I will put it all behind me. Because this can take a while I figured I'd order another one and keep any RMA replacement as a spare. I noticed there was a refurb available from a different seller, and I've had great experience with refurbs in the past. Seller (M-Wave) shipped very fast. IMO there is no way this drive was refurbed, or even inspected. The door wouldn't open. Weird. No grinding or hanging, just a gentle whir. I opened the drawer manually with the paperclip trick and saw the drawer drive belt was loose in the drive (see pic). I was able to retrieve it and install it on the pulleys with a pick. Joy! No, despair. The drive clacks and won't stay closed whether or not a disc is present. It sounds like maybe the drive head is not lifting into place correctly. I put in for a replacement but apparently Prime only does refunds. Fine. I gave up on this model drive and just bought a Samsung instead: Samsung 24x SATA DVD+RW DVD-Writer Internal Optical Drive (SH-224FB/BSBE) ===== Original review ===== A great drive, just what the insiders have come to expect from Lite-On. Funny name, fantastic burners.

This was really great. Like my original drive's from 2010. this one finally went bad that I have not used in a few years. but it works great. however no mounting screws included would have been nice.

I installed two of these (one in a desktop computer and one in an external USB DVD drive) and both worked as expected for the hour or so I used each of them. I can't speak to the durability of the units yet, hence the one star deduction. I noticed that the production date of the drives was in 2023. I have read that manufacturers have either stopped or will be stopping production of DVD player/recorders in the near future. In this time of cloud storage, digital downloads for movies, and streaming I guess the demand has diminished. I still find great value in them and some others may as well. Better get 'em while you can.

Works great!! Very pleased. Responds quickly after switch activation. Thank you

I don't like buying used computer parts but nobody good make DVD/CD player burner. Mabe because the last for years and years. This one arrived. Installed it ino the computer and put a disk in it to get windows 11 to load a driver. Perfect, it plays and burns images to cd and DVD without issues.

I've used Lite-on drives in previous builds, but never this model. I had decided to keep my old XP machine to use off-line while in the process of building a Windows 7 machine so I didn't attempt to install these older drives in my newer computer (one 9 year old Sony, and one 8 year old Lite-on, neither of which have given me any problems). I tried to load the new Win7 OS with a new and highly rated ASUS drive with no luck......it just kept returning errors on my installation. I decided to go with this drive, even though there are some less expensive ones that are Win7 compatible. I actually purchased 2 of these "bare drives" (comes with no software) to make it easier to copy DVD's. There are many adequate free DVD copy programs available (Google it). This IHAS124-14 started right up and installed the OS flawlessly. I have since use both drives to install additional software without any problems. No software disk came with these, but they were plug n play for my motherboard. Also, make sure you have a spare SATA cable to connect these to the mother board. This drive is fairly quiet during operation. I've copied 6 CD;s and 4 DVD's so far without incident, and all copies burned perfectly on the first try (guessing I'm lucky, as I was not using the most expensive media to make copies to). So far I'm impressed with these drives, and glad I made the purchase. I might add that the read speed is up to par, but the write speed seemed a tad bit slower than advertised (just an impression), but fast enough for me. If any problems occur, I will update this review accordingly.

Here's a new Windows 11 computer...no built in DVD drive. What's the external drive we want? NO, not those skinny things that look like they were taken out of a laptop... YES, the drive with a motor that moves the tray in and out. This was recommended for the external drive enclosure. Together, that's the package that plays DVDs like in the days of Windows 10.

Bonjour, Article comportant l'essentiel, sans aucune fioriture, ni manuel, ni vis, ni câble SATA, mais qui remplit correctement sa fonction, et c'est bien ce qu'on lui demande! Ayant acheté un Samsung voilà quelque temps (qui tourne parfaitement!) ce que vous pourrez vérifier en lisant mes commentaires, le Liteon se révèle un tout petit peu plus silencieux, car il "vibre" un peu moins lorsqu'il tourne à vitesse maxi. Ceci étant, pour ceux qui les trouvent "bruyants", il ne faut pas oublier que ces appareils doivent être fixés par huit vis, pas moins, (quatre d'un côté et quatre de l'autre) même lorsqu'il est mentionné que les racks sont à "fixation rapide" sans vis. Il ne faut pas perdre de vue, que ce sont des appareils ayant des capacités de rotation à grande vitesse, et que les disques que l'on y insère peuvent très bien ne pas être parfaitement équilibrés, ce qui peut engendrer une vibration qui va s'amplifier encore et résonner dans un boîtier "enceinte" si l'appareil n'y est pas CORRECTEMENT maintenu par des vis aux endroits adéquats. Perso, tout comme le Samsung, cet appareil a été correctement pris en compte, tant sous Linux (Je construit des PC dual boot) que sous Windows 10, et les tests de gravure/lecture ont été concluants. À voir dans le temps, pour la robustesse/longévité du matériel, et si besoin, je reviendrais sur ce commentaire. Merci de m'avoir lu, je recommande, c'est un bon achat, et il est fort possible que j'en commande un second dans les jours à venir. Merci Amazon, pour ses livraisons toujours au top. Cordialement, édit du 24/11/2017 mon premier exemplaire tourne toujours parfaitement et j'en ai acquis un second chez un concurrent célèbre d'Amazon, pour un autre PC en cours de finition qui lui aussi se révèle aussi parfait que le premier.

Ich habe ziemlich lange ein Laufwerk - meine CD Sammlung verlustlos als FLAC- Audioformat zu digitalisieren gesucht. Neun verschiedene Laufwerke / Hersteller sind über mich getestet worden – aber nur als CD - LESEGERÄT. LiteOn IHAS124 ist ein Preis/Leistung HAMMER!!! IHAS124 ließ Audiospur locker bis ca. 27x Speed - total fehlerfrei. Er hat auch C2 Error Pointer Support. Nutze selber neuste „dBPoweramp CD Ripper“ (64-bit-Muti-CPU) mit „AccurateRipp“ unter Windows 10 Pro 64-bit. Mit gute Hardware ( z.B. Intel CPU: i-3/i-5/i-7 – RAM: 8-16GB) digitalisiere ich sehr ordentlich eine CD zwischen zwei und vier Minuten. Diese Hardware/Software Konstellation ist für jemanden - wie ich, welcher über 1000 CD’s - Sammlung archivieren will - sehr empfehlenswert.

Works perfectly so far.

Spedizione velocissima, arrivato in soli 3 giorni. Imballo molto corposo che ha protetto molto bene il masterizzatore, il cui modello preciso che ho ricevuto è "LiteOn iHAS 124-14 Revisione FU, versione del firmware CL08 aggiornata ". Inoltre supporta BurnerMAX per scrivere i DVD DL fino alla sua dimensione massima assoluta (8.7... byte), il tutto senza bisogno di flashare alcun firmware. Ah, se volete masterizzare giochi XGD3 per XBOX 360 al 100%, non servirà più il tool "BurnerMAX payload tool" in quanto già integrato nell'ultima versione di ImgBurn, la 2.5.8.0 (basta andare in "Masterizza immagine disco", poi fare clic su "Unità" e su "Invia carico BurnerMAX", oppure, in alternativa, fate partire la masterizzazione e ve lo chiederà il programma stesso). Riguardo i settaggi, all'inizio, leggendo in giro per i forum, avevo abilitato l'OPC nelle impostazioni avanzate, il risultato è stato quello di aver bruciato 2 DVD. Poi, disabilitando l'OPC, sono riuscito a scrivere un gioco XGD3 (PES 2016) al 100% e senza errori nel log di ImgBurn. Riguardo la qualità della copia di backup, dipende soprattutto dal supporto che si utilizza e dalla velocità di scrittura impostata (in ogni caso, meglio mantenerla pari od inferiore ai 4x); questo vale per TUTTI i supporti, Verbatim e non (personalmente ho usato un Maxell DVD+R DL scritto a 4x e, usando KProbe per testare la qualità della copia XGD3, mi sono usciti valori PI e PIF molto alti, infatti, mettendolo nella XBOX 360 e provando ad installare PES, mi dà "disco illeggibile" arrivato al 50%, tuttavia, al momento, non mi da errore mentre gioco). Un altro appunto a scopo di cronaca: questo masterizzatore lo uso collegandolo al mio PC portatile attraverso un alimentatore SATA2USB; inoltre, su Windows 10, viene rilevato dopo pochi secondi senza bisogno di installare driver aggiuntivi o fare riavvii e quant'altro. In conclusione, l'unica impostazione che mi dava problemi era l'OPC, inoltre, ho anche impostato il buffer di ImgBurn a 512MB, ma credo che la dimensione sia ininfluente, la cosa importante è tenere libera la memoria del PC e non usarlo durante la masterizzazione essendo l'hard disk impegnato durante la stessa. Sicuramente mi capiterà di masterizzare altri giochi XGD3 in seguito, anche per vedere se questo fatto dell'OPC disabilitato può valere anche per gli altri giochi; in ogni caso, funziona molto bene e mi ritengo soddisfatto per l'acquisto e mi sento anche di consigliarlo a coloro che non vogliono perdersi in svariati flashing di firmware o nelle tante impostazioni di masterizzazione che ci sono scritte sul web (molte delle quali sono anche sbagliate, o non sono valide per tutti i masterizzatori).

Reliable item. Built quality superb.