CD-ROM Drive

• Manufacturer: Plextor

• Supplier: Simply Computers

• Model: 12-Plex 12TSi

I chose this unit purely on the basis of reviews, as it was raved about in all the magazines I read.  It was even fairly successful in attempting to read a broken CD-ROM that I knew my old drive could not read at all!  Although it has been superseded by a 20-Plex, I am still happy with its performance:

• Norton
  25MB/s cached throughput
  
• SCSIBench32 (using 64KB transfer size)
  455KB/s random I/O
  1790KB/s sequential I/O
  8600KB/s same sector I/O

Some bizarre results indeed!