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[Haygar]

I can't vouch for the latest pioneer burners but I swear buy my old faithful dvr-111 burner, my mate has had one also since the 360 came along and they've been used heaps. I tried using a new samsung burner recently but I could tell that the backups weren't being read as smooth in the drive, so out it went! Can't remember when I got a bad rip, maybe Oblivion but that was probably me, now that's going back.

I also swear by the original MS-25/28 samsung 360 drives to the point that I've swapped out the Benq/Liteon (have two of these brand new out of my boxes in storage). LT didn't solve some of the lag on the benq that annoyed me back when iX 1.4 was around. A quick test I do is use the intro in Forza Motorsport II (where the're racing after the press start icon appears). The benq will show stutters but the sammy's are as smooth as. I just seem to be able to throw any quick rip at the sammy's and they run. They were the good s*#t in the old xbox.

Sure, some will say that they also get open tray but that is usually either slipping belt (use some belt grip on a cotton bud, only have to open the tray to access it), or laser getting confused after inserting disc (put O-ring on sled at spindle end), have not had to do this personally.
A friend of mine still has my launch MS-25 in his console due to a drive board fault in his MS-28 where it would just intermittently play dead, weird but thats electronics.

I honestly can't knock the liteons, but I have friends with those that have issues with some backups and upon testing on a samsung will run flawlessly. The Benq just isn't as smooth on some known games and sounds the same, too.
Apparently the benq laser is interchangable with the liteon (they are of course just different revisions) but thats not to say that they are the same exact laser. I've been tempted to grab the laser out of the liteon and test the results in the benq.

Edit: Forgot to mention I use xtreme 5.3 12x, great non-stealth FW.