[ihaveanosebleed]

I have a V4, it’s the 35001 which I find is slightly better than the other V4’s ( I know what your going to say...GT but from what I've seen these drives are better). I got this for next to nothing and brought the laser back to life. I noticed some squeeking or chirping on CD-R’s rinning PS2 backups even Verbatims, CD-R’s and origional CD media are very noisy. Running PS1 backups are much more quiet. For DVD-R’s I’ve only had access to cheap princo 1X media. DVD media is a lot quieter than CD’s on my PS2, they do make a little clunking sound and I couldn’t tell any difference between my original DVD or the DVD-R. I couldn’t resist trying to burn a 1X at 2X so I did and I couldn’t tell any difference with that DVD-R either. Now, just because you can’t tell any difference in sound doesn’t mean that there is no difference. It’s still a good idea to listen to your laser and compare with originals

I just had an idea to compare loading time with a stopwatch. Surprising results here, the 1X princo DVD-R I burned at 2X loaded 29.39 seconds. The original DVD game loaded the identical game section in 30.69!