LG Electronics 8X USB 2.0 Super Multi Ultra Slim Portable DVD+/-RW External Drive with M-DISC Support, Retail (Silver) GP60NS50

I use this for my macbook and it works great Ive also used it on my windows pc just to see if it would work and it did. it is made out of plastic but it works great and it makes it light weight. I can burn/play dvd-/+r and cd-/+r with this. you dont need a power cord for this because it powers through the usb cable. i feel like this works just as good as the one they sell at apple but cost less its also name brand. it says its tv compatible but will not work on my samsung tv. it takes the mini B usb and comes with a 6 inch cord it is short but most people of a ton of these laying around so you can replace it with a longer one.

It gets the job done which is all you can really ask for. I purchased this product because my new laptop doesnt have a CD/DVD drive and I needed one because I frequently download CDs into iTunes. In this regard I cant comment on this products writing abilities because I havent tried it out yet. The product came packaged nicely and came with a software disk that you have to download in order to use the product. I put in the disk and tried to download the software, but no matter how many times it said it was successful I couldnt get the software to work. Plus it makes you download programs like label making when you try to download the main program that allows the computer to recognize the drive. Instead I downloaded the VLC media player from the internet and has worked fine since then. It plays movies through that program so its convenient (not as convenient as one would hope though). The drive is also extremely loud when it is reading a disk so if you are hoping to watch a movie while everyone else is sleeping, well the disk drive will wake them up with the noises it makes. Obviously the noise isnt a huge deal when burning disks because it only lasts for a few minutes, but it is annoying when you watch a movie and it makes loud noises throughout most of the movie. Im sure there are plenty of better external disk drives, but for the money this one is fine. There was a cheaper one I was looking at that I wouldnt mind having after seeing that this one isnt too fantastic.

Bought this because it claimed to work with XP Pro. IT DOES NOT. Install disk loaded a mass of useless eye-candy software, but no driver or burner-manager for XP Pro. Some of this junk software autoloads on bootup AND REFUSES TO DELETE, which means hours and hours of backing-up, wiping and reloading my hard drive. Id rather have a virus! Those I can get rid of with McAfee, Spybot, or Malwarebytes. Seller was zero help. Mfgr. site does not support this model at all. (But it tries like crazy to sell you another one!) Final indignity is that the ( USB ) power demand is so great that it overloads the power-supply in my Dell laptop, causing it to shut down completely at random moments. I have wasted a whole day trying to sort this thing out, and will lose another whole day rebuilding my hard drive. Am returning it for refund, but where to I go to get my wasted time back ????

I cant believe that some people cant get this to work. You have to plug it in, let it download its recognition software first, and then you can put your included Super Multi Drive Install disc in, and download the needed software to run the program. I absolutely love it, and find that it works exceptionally. I bought it for my HP Stream 13 laptop with Windows 8.1, so that I can transfer my vinyl records through Audacity and make digital files for archiving. The cds that it burns have come out absolutely phenomenal. They sound better than any cds Ive ever burned before with other HP computers, with awesome quality that rivals or even out does store bought cds. Ive been very impressed for something this cheap. Completely surpassed my expectations. It plays cds and dvds perfectly! I havent tried burning any dvds yet, but Im certain in its capability to do so. Im hoping it lasts me a long time. The build quality looks good and what you might expect from LG! Very thin and super light weight. The burn speed was also faster than I expected. Overall, I am very, very happy with this product and I would certainly buy it again. LG really makes great products! I highly recommend this product!

Modern era drives our life towards absence of CD and DVD ROMs in our computers/laptops, especially those that are designed for personal home use. Indeed now speed of internet is much much faster that reading speed of the laser inside a ROM. However, most of us have collected enormous collection of discs covering old FLAC, MP3 music albums, home video, family pictures and so on. Of course you can keep one of those old machines to read your stuff, but after few years of progress that will be painful to work on such slow machines and eventually you will either put everything in clouds or buy a set of external hard drives. BUT, there is another option. You can simply have ONE and only ONE per family external CD/DVD readers. This particular one has astonishing slim design, laptop like mechanics of loading and unloading disks, and, what is the most important, high speed of reading and recognition. It took my Macbook air (late 2012) absolutely no time to start working with this device. I thinks at some point a lot of people will end up with having one of those along with their laptops and all-in-one machines that like iMac do not have CD-roms anymore, but I dont fell like that they should have one.

I bought this as an alternative drive to rip certain problem CDs that were trouble for my Apple SuperDrive. This drive rips them very quickly and without issue! I love it! Yes, it is very lightweight and seems thin. However, since it is only my backup and I wont be watching DVDs with it, I suspect it will last quite a while.

Our law office is constantly reading and writing CDs and DVDs, and because we work on Mac computers, currently have no CD drives on our machines. Previously, we had another portable CD burner and it was horrid. Sometimes the computer wouldnt recognize the drive, sometime it wouldnt read discs, sometimes it would fail in the middle of burning a disc. This LG USB portable external drive does NONE of those things! This little thing is reliable all the time, every day. If it cant read a disc, there is definitely something wrong with the disc. If something weird happens - which occasionally does, with discs - and it wont eject, its an easy fix. (Simply unplug it from the usb drive to cut the power, and then plug it back in and hit the front eject button and out comes the disc, every time.) In an office setting where we do not have one extra minute to waste dealing with systems that dont work well, this is a blessing. Highly recommend for either Mac or PC platforms. Lightweight and durable, it is well worth the reasonable price.