It's slow.. its a 4x dvd rom I think? Dont matter to me was a freebie... and there are tools to turn USB sticks into virtual floppies, CDroms, or boot drives...
TBH its not any slower than the 8X IDE dvdROM I have... (all my DVDRWs are in "working PCs" LOL)
Im going to be moving to all USB sticks soon though I think...
Going to figure out how to turn this 16GB USB3 stick into a multi OS installation tool
