Optical drive installation isn’t particularly difficult. The key thing to remember once the drive has been slid into a 5.25″ drive bay is to connect the SATA power and data cable. The cables are keyed and only go in one way so it’s just a matter of fiddling around in your case before it lines up and slides in. Even for a novice, the installation will likely take less than half an hour.

Plextor includes the CyberLink BD Suite which will allow you to play movies (CD, DVD, BD) off your new drive, edit videos, write files to CDs, DVDs and BDs, backup your system and create labels for your storage media.

The CyberLink BD Suite is a great piece of software as it eliminates your need to buy Ahead Nero.

The primary benchmark software will be Opti Disc Control v1.44 and that gives us a fair bit of background information on the drive I’d like to share.

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