Good burner and low noise level unlike the last two oem unboxed ones, writes to blanks that previous burner were unable to detect the disc id. So far so good. Reads blanks fine. Read more

Record's perfectly from a great company. Also included cd setup and a nice program for videos. Read more

Used for recording CDs. Not quite as good as my old one that gave up the ghost. Went with plextor for reputation. I hear they farm it out now. Well built and stable. A little bit picky on blank CDs but loves pro quality laqured Japanese blanks. I guess since CD is sadly a dying format not too much effort is put into the technology any more. I am happy with this recorder and am looking for another one maybe even a better one if I can find one that beats this plextor. Will record at 8X speed for audio and 4X for DVD. Nice Read more

I purchased this CD/DVD drive as it was recommended in a forum as being a good quality for burning audio disks. I have an old CD player from around the late 80s/early 90s and so it is very fussy about reading burned CD-Rs. This drive will burn any CD-R I put into it at 8x speed (while some drives I have will refuse to burn slower than 10x or 16x, depending on the brand. Even when some CD-R media is officially not supporting speeds lower than 16x, this drive will burn at that lower speed.) I have tried Verbatim CD-R, Verbatim Music CD-R, Maxell Music CD-R, and Verbatim DataLifePlus CD-R. With this drive at 8x speed, only the non-music Verbatim CD-R failed to read properly in my old player (it starts playing but cannot skip properly to any track later than 2 or 3). The burn quality is much more reliable than my two external USB slim drives and my other internal CD drive. There is one review mentioning malware on the packaged CDs. I have not touched them and there is no reason to do so. Any software like ImgBurn can be acquired online from a reliable source and the unit is plug-and-play friendly. Read more

First class audio cd writer. Get excellent rip quality. I am using it in an external cd drive enclosure (owc mercury). Read more

This is a really nice DVD/CD writer. Fit perfectly into the drive space of Dell's OptiPlex 7000 tower. Great writing speeds, no glitches or problems whatsoever. Much better quality and durability than the slim profile unit that came with the OptiPlex. I did not use the software that came with it based upon the other reviews on this unit... I already have my favorites. Very happy I selected this unit... Read more