ASUS BC-12B1ST DVD Drive

• Optical Drive Speeds

Had to return mine. :( On some boots it wouldn't register in the BIOS, would show up as an IDE drive, or the kernel would have events loading it. I'm certain that the “e-green” functionality that's designed to save power by spinning down faster and spinning up more slowly is the problem. Scanning some DVDs it'd take seconds to respond.

With DVD in drive:

  Maximum read  speed:  8310 kB/s (CD  47x, DVD  6x, BD  1x)
  Current read  speed:  8310 kB/s (CD  47x, DVD  6x, BD  1x)
  Maximum write speed:     0 kB/s (CD   0x, DVD  0x, BD  0x)
  Current write speed:     0 kB/s (CD   0x, DVD  0x, BD  0x)

With Blu-ray in drive:

  Maximum read  speed: 35968 kB/s (CD 204x, DVD 25x, BD  8x)
  Current read  speed: 26976 kB/s (CD 153x, DVD 19x, BD  6x)
  Maximum write speed:     0 kB/s (CD   0x, DVD  0x, BD  0x)
  Current write speed:     0 kB/s (CD   0x, DVD  0x, BD  0x)