I own one LITE-ON SOHD 16P9S DVD-ROM reader
This drive came with a SF09 stock firmware allowing these max reading speeds:
DVD-ROM SL: 16x
DVD-ROM DL: 8x
DVD R: 8x
DVD RW: 8x
DVD R DL: 8x
I flashed this drive with the SF09 patched firmware from "codeguys"
as described here
allowing the following reading speeds when you set them to the max possibilities:
DVD-ROM SL: 16x
DVD-ROM DL: 16x
DVD R: 16x
DVD RW: 16x
DVD R DL: 12x
Disable Smart-X: yes
I plan to use now the drive to do tranfer rate tests of burned DVD's both SL and DL
as described
in these reviews here
and also
in your reviews at CDRLabs
I have always used Liteons, this drive [the 16P9S] makes less noise than the 167t but doesnt read DVD's or Pc game backups as good as the 167t. Not a bad drive, but not as good as the Liteon 167t drive.
I could not find a SOHD-167T so I bought this SOHD-16P9S. I just hope that it is able to do the same job with the high allowed read speeds.