Pioneer A04 DVD-R/RW Writer

[justpancho]

now that tyler brough up the discussion .. i did a little research. i was under the impression that the sony drives only wrote at 2.5x for dvd-r, but i think they write at 4x just like the ao5. I know that many people have written on how great the pioneer drives are for burning ps2 backups. Are the sony drives just as reliable? I also have modded my xbox. Is there any difference there in reliability in burning backups or does most of the reliability come from buying better blank media?