LiteOn iHOS104-08

LITE-ON iHOS104-08 Blu-Ray Drive

Just a couple of years ago, 1080p TVs were a thing of miracles and if you were to mention that you had a Blu-Ray drive, you would be considered a sort of miniature deity. Well, maybe not that extreme, but the fact still remains that in order to get your hands on a BD player you either had to get a PS3 or wait and spend hundreds or even thousands of dollars to get it from other manufacturers. Today however, the both 1080p TV and Blu-Rays are becoming more and more popular as well as more affordable. If you are looking for an inexpensive drive to stick into your home theater PC and are aren’t really looking to burn Blu-Ray titles , which keep in mind still cost a lot to buy, then the LITE-ON iHOS104 might be for you. It is important to remember that the iHOS104 is a BD ROM, this means that this particular model is unable to write Blu-Ray disks but just read them. Another thing that caught my eye are the read and write speeds of the older standards – DVD and CD. While most new drives offer CD read speeds of 48X some 52X, and DVD read speeds of 16X, this particular mode only offers 8X on the DVDs and 32X on the CDs.