So far in the few weeks use it has worked 100% of the time, with no ripping failures.Ī couple of points not particularly clear in other reviews: The drive performs beautifully, it's extremely quiet and doesn't heat up to the touch. From there I am able to shrink the file some but by that point the blu-ray drive's job is already done. I use this drive connected to a MacBook Pro and use MakeMKV to allow me to rip the disk to an MKV file. This unbranded (Although probably Panasonic or Matsushita) drive has excelled since I bought it. I needed an external blu-ray reader so that I could back up my growing collection of blu-ray disks and to access them through my home media device.

Yeah, I think I will just get another drive when this one totally dies - perhaps a burner. Pioneer says my drive comes with a 1 year warranty, however, since it is an OEM drive it is up to the reseller. Has anyone else had this problem with CD/DVDs? It simply ejects the disc a couple seconds later. I dropped it a star because it's probably going to die soon. UPDATE: I've had the drive for a few months now and it seems to have lost the ability to read CD/DVDs (Blu-ray discs seem to still work fine, albeit with some read errors - but that's probably Netflix's discs). Obviously this is only as a data drive - you can't playback videos without ripping with MakeMKV. Comes with a burned CD with Windows drivers. I don't know if the case simply has the opening for one and the drive doesn't have one or it is broken.

The front LED doesn't seem to function at all on mine. I'm showing sustained 14.4 MB/sec (aka 3.3x) during rips. The drive reads Blu-Ray discs faster than 2x. The second power cable doesn't actually seem to do anything when connected although it might be needed to burn DVDs? I'll investigate. Does NOT need the extra power cable when running on a normal 500 mA USB 2.0 connector. Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAOīased on what everyone is saying, the company seems to pick any model 2x drive and pops it into a case. I picked this up to backup Blu-Ray discs on my Mac as part of my recent 'put all my DVDs, etc into iTunes project'.Īccording to System Info these are the drive specs:īurn Support: Yes (Generic Drive Support)ĭVD-Write: -R, -R DL, -RAM, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW

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