Note that not every drive has a name. But obviously, all drives have a speed rating of course. The type number is displayed in EAC in the top left drop down box. The firmware of a drive can be compared with the BIOS of a motherboard. It's a small piece of software in a chip that controls the hardware.
Most modern drives have a flashable firmware.
This means the firmware can be updated by simply running the flash update program. Updated firmware versions often improve performance, add new features or fix bugs of the previous firmware. Download this small freeware tool. CDR Identifier is meant to retrieve the actual manufacturer of a CD-R disc, but it also displays the firmware revision of the drives in your system. The left screenshot shows CDR Identifier.