CDRInfo has posted a review of Pacific Digital's U-30201 DVD�RW recorder, which is an OEM version of Lite-On's LDW-811S recordable DVD drive. How will it compare to a retail version of the Lite-On drive? And how does it stack up against other drives? Here's a small snippet from their extensive review:

A lot of what applied for its twin brother, the LiteOn LDW-811s, can also be said of the Pacific Digital drive although in the main it did not seem to perform quite as well in the areas of jitter and quality. We make this comparison since the Pacific Digital and LiteOn drives are practically the same drive.

Unfortunately, it did not manage to achieve the same performance as the LiteOn LDW-811S when it came to DAE, however it's speed was satisfactory. In any case, it appears to be a good CD writer achieving times similar to those of the LiteOn. It also supports overburning up to 99 minutes, backups of protected audio CDs and SafeDisc protection scheme (except v2.9).

As a DVD reader it performed quite satisfactorily, with a very good drive-to-hard disk ripping time. In the DVD error correction tests it performed very well and in the main can be regarded as a good reader. DVD writing times were also good and here to it can be regarded as a fast DVD recorder, there not being much between it and the other two drives in the comparison (LiteOn and Optorite DD0401).