yeah. I guess it's sony's creme de' la' creme of the burners. it came out about 1.5 years ago. The person's computer board died and it was out of warranty, so they were just parting it out. I guess it was a custom made machine. The front of the sony drive looks damn snazzy. Kind of a glass-plate thing for the bezel with laser-etched labels into it with the model number. It's a dang nice drive. I was told by them that they spent like $70USD on it from a website they went to. Not bad? $50 off and only cost me 60 cents in gas!