Lite-On Super AllWrite IHAS124-04-KIT 24X DVD+/-RW Dual Layer Burner + Nero 12 Essentials Burning Software + Sata Cable Kit

Most DVD drives do some clicking and clunking during a cold boot — your computer is set to check to see whether there’s a bootable disk in the drive, and the drive has to start and spin to check that for you. This DVD RW is almost silent at boot. A little bzzz bzzz is about all it makes. Great. When the drive spins to read or write, however, it’s pretty loud. It quiets down enough so that it doesn’t interfere too much with music played from the drive, but during recording, it stays noisy. Hardly anybody today listens to music CDs on a computer, so that’s not a big thing, and the fact that the drive is mechanically noisy while recording shouldn’t bother most users. I recommend this DVD RW.

The drive and provided accessories are good. The reason this got a 3 star rating is the bundled software. The description does not state that the bundled Nero 12 Essentials is a 30 day trail version. I was expecting an OEM version, not a trial version.