Sony Optiarc Europe, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony has just announced the AD-7240S, a 24x DVD burner to rival Lite-On's own speedy writers. The upcoming internal drive has a SATA interface, comes with Adaptive Self Tuning technology and provides top writing speeds of 24x for DVD-R/+R SL, 12x for DVD-R DL, DVD-R9 and DVD-RAM, 8x for DVD+RW, 6x for DVD-RW, 48x for CD-R and 32x for CD-RW.

The AD-7240S will hit stores next month and be offered with a two-year warranty.