Hum . You want my opinion and some well known facts , go there ( though it was not updated it remains true ) :
http://members.fortunecity.fr/vbl117/
Also i assume it's false to say Alcohol is slow and slower
. Of course like Clone Cd it is a software that uses hardware abilities ( but Alcohol uses hardware abilities much better ) . But when it uses DPMS ( it is not used with most profiles ) to know accurately data position it needs twice the time it would have needed . 2/3 Mn X 2 ; poor boy ! 3 Mn more for a perfect image that u'll not be able to obtain with other software . will you survive ? . Securom New needs DPMS because this protection is also based on data positioning .
I use Win XP PRO . I had many problems with burning software and virtual cd but none of them occurred with Alcohol 120 which seems very stable to me
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If you want to make the better back up and use all your Lite-On abilities u should better use Alcohol 120 instead of Clone Cd .
But like i always says : do as you want
. If i were you i wouldn't ask anymore and i would give it a try . It is the better way to compare it with Clone Cd .